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</font></div><div><div class="post" style="margin: 0px 0px 40px; text-align: justify; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p class="postmetadata" style="text-align: left; clear: left; padding-top: 5px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Posted in <a href="http://bigmedia.org/category/colorado-attorney-generals-office/" rel="category tag" style="text-decoration: none;">Colorado Attorney General's Office</a>, <a href="http://bigmedia.org/category/knus-kelley-and-company/" rel="category tag" style="text-decoration: none;">KNUS</a> | <a href="http://bigmedia.org/2015/06/29/media-omission-tancredo-says-republicans-told-him-they-were-scared-to-vote-against-house/#respond" style="text-decoration: none;">No Comments »</a></font></p></div><div class="post" style="margin: 0px 0px 40px; text-align: justify;"><h3 id="post-13508" style="text-align: left; padding: 0px; margin: 30px 0px 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="http://bigmedia.org/2014/12/22/media-omission-lawsuits-could-illuminate-if-top-republicans-knew-of-gop-funded-anti-tancredo-campaign/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to Media Omission: Lawsuits could illuminate if top Republicans knew of GOP-funded anti-Tancredo campaign" style="text-decoration: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Media Omission: Lawsuits could illuminate if top Republicans knew of GOP-funded anti-Tancredo campaign</font></a></h3><small style="line-height: 1.5em;" /><div style="text-align: left;"><small style="line-height: 1.5em;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large; line-height: 1.5em;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Monday, December 22nd, </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">2014</span></span></small></div><div class="entry"><p style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">During this year’s GOP primary, top Colorado Republicans, including Colorado GOP Chair Ryan Call and Attorney General John Suthers, <a href="http://www.denverpost.com/politics/ci_26232785/group-gop-governors-assn-funneled-campaign-cash-hurt" style="text-decoration: none;">claimed to have no knowledge</a> of a GOP-funded campaign attacking Republican candidates Tom Tancredo and Laura Woods.</font></p><p style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.4em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Matt Arnold, who runs <a href="http://campaignintegritywatchdog.org/" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">Campaign Integrity Watchdog</a>, has a hard time believing this, and he thinks a couple of campaign-finance lawsuits he’s filed have a chance, even if it’s a bit of a long shot, of clarifying things. See them by <a href="http://tracer.sos.colorado.gov/PublicSite/Search.aspx" style="text-decoration: none;">clicking on “Complaint Search” here</a> and typing “Campaign Integrity Watchdog” in the “organization” line.</font></p><p style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.4em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Arnold’s legal action follows up on revelations in July that the Republican Governors Association (RGA) <a href="http://www.denverpost.com/politics/ci_26232785/group-gop-governors-assn-funneled-campaign-cash-hurt" style="text-decoration: none;">funneled money through the Republican Attorneys General Association (RAGA)</a> to attack GOP gubernatorial candidate Tom Tancredo.</font></p><p style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The question is, can the discovery process during technical and narrow campaign-finance legal proceedings illuminate broader information indicating, for example, whether Ryan Call knew about RAGA’s involvement in the Tancredo attacks? </span><a href="http://www.denverpost.com/politics/ci_26232785/group-gop-governors-assn-funneled-campaign-cash-hurt" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Like Call, </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Colorado<b> Attorney General John Suthers, who’s on the board of RAGA,</b></span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> has also said he didn’t know</span></a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> about RAGA’s or the RGA’s role in the anti-Tancredo campaign.</span></font></p><p style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.4em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Experts told me Arnold will have to be lucky if he can even use the discovery process during legal proceedings to turn up this information. Bu it’s not impossible and will depend on the timeline and substance of the cases, judicial discretion and other factors. Normally, campaign-finance lawsuits, especially if they don’t allege collaboration, are decided rather quickly, leaving little time between the hearing and a trial for much discovery, like depositions and document requests.</font></p><p style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.4em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">One of Arnold’s complaints alleges that Colorado Campaign for Jobs and Opportunity, a state campaign committee, violated campaign finance laws by listing contributions from Campaign for Jobs and Opportunity, a federal superpac that received money from RAGA, as in-kind expenditures. And the federal Campaign for Jobs and Opportunity also failed to make any disclosure when it contributed to Colorado Campaign for Jobs and Opportunity, as required by state law, according to Arnold.</font></p><p style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.4em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">...</font></p><p style="text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="line-height: 16.8px;">http://bigmedia.org/category/colorado-attorney-generals-office/</span></font></p></div></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div><div>
</div><div>wiki</div><div><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.4px; color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>John William Suthers</b> (born October 18, 1951) is the current Mayor of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colorado_Springs,Colorado" title="Colorado Springs, Colorado" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Colorado Springs, Colorado</a>, and the former<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_Attorney_General" class="mw-redirect" title="State Attorney General" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Attorney General</a> of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colorado" title="Colorado" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Colorado</a>, U.S. Attorney for Colorado and Fourth Judicial District Attorney. He is a member of the<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_Party(United_States)" title="Republican Party (United States)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Republican Party</a>.</p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.4px; color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><div id="toc" class="toc" style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 7px; font-size: 13.3px; display: table; zoom: 1; color: rgb(37, 37, 37); background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);"><div id="toctitle" style="direction: ltr; text-align: center;"><h2 style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border: none; font-size: 13.3px; display: inline; line-height: 1.3; background: none;">Contents</h2> <span class="toctoggle" style="-webkit-user-select: none; font-size: 12.502px;"> [<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Suthers#" id="togglelink" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">hide</a>] </span></div><ul style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0.3em 0px; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Suthers#Background" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">1</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Background</span></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Suthers#Professional_career" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">2</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Professional career</span></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-3" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Suthers#Mayor_of_Colorado_Springs" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">3</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Mayor of Colorado Springs</span></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-4" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Suthers#Personal" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">4</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Personal</span></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-5" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Suthers#References" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">5</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">References</span></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-6" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Suthers#External_links" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">6</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">External links</span></a></li></ul></div><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.4px; color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); font-family: "Linux Libertine", Georgia, Times, serif; line-height: 1.3; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="mw-headline" id="Background">Background</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select: none; font-size: small; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate; font-family: sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em; color: rgb(85, 85, 85);">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John_Suthers&action=edit§ion=1&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Background" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0.25em; color: rgb(85, 85, 85);">]</span></span></h2><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.4px; color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Suthers was born in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denver" title="Denver" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Denver</a>, Colorado and adopted a month later by William and Marguerite Suthers, a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colorado_Springs,Colorado" title="Colorado Springs, Colorado" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Colorado Springs</a>couple. His father died when Suthers was 15, and his mother died when he was 23.</p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.4px; color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">He attended St. Mary's High School in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colorado_Springs,Colorado" title="Colorado Springs, Colorado" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Colorado Springs</a>, and the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Notre_Dame" title="University of Notre Dame" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">University of Notre Dame</a>, from which he graduated magna cum laude with a degree in government in 1974. Suthers graduated from the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Colorado_at_Boulder" class="mw-redirect" title="University of Colorado at Boulder" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">University of Colorado School of Law</a>in 1977. He attended college and law school on academic scholarships.</p><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); font-family: "Linux Libertine", Georgia, Times, serif; line-height: 1.3; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="mw-headline" id="Professional_career">Professional career</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select: none; font-size: small; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate; font-family: sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em; color: rgb(85, 85, 85);">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John_Suthers&action=edit§ion=2&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Professional career" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0.25em; color: rgb(85, 85, 85);">]</span></span></h2><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.4px; color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">From 1977 to 1981, Suthers served as a deputy and chief deputy district attorney in Colorado Springs. From 1979 to 1981, he headed the Economic Crime Division of the district attorney’s office and co-authored a book on consumer fraud and<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White-collar_crime" title="White-collar crime" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">white-collar crime</a>. During his time as a prosecutor at the local level, he tried cases ranging from drunken driving to first degree murder and from shoplifting to securities fraud.</p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.4px; color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">In 1981, Suthers became a litigation partner in the Colorado Springs law firm of Sparks Dix, P.C. He remained with the firm until 1988, at which time he defeated an incumbent<sup id="cite_ref-John_W.Suthers_biography_1-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap; font-size: 11.2px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Suthers#cite_note-John_W.Suthers_biography-1" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[1]</a></sup> to become the elected district attorney of the Fourth Judicial District. He served as president of the Colorado District Attorneys Council in 1994-1995.<sup id="cite_ref-John_W.Suthers_CV_2-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap; font-size: 11.2px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Suthers#cite_note-John_W.Suthers_CV-2" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[2]</a></sup> At the conclusion of his second term, Suthers returned to Sparks Dix in 1997 as senior counsel in charge of the firm’s litigation section. He then ran for Attorney General in 1998 and lost 47.4% to 50% <sup id="cite_ref-Election_results_for_1998_Colorado_Attorney_General_race_3-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap; font-size: 11.2px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Suthers#cite_note-Election_results_for_1998_Colorado_Attorney_General_race-3" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[3]</a></sup> to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Salazar" title="Ken Salazar" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Ken Salazar</a>.</p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.4px; color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">In 1999, Suthers was appointed executive director of the Colorado Department of Corrections by Governor <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Owens(Colorado_politician)" title="Bill Owens (Colorado politician)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Bill Owens</a>. In that capacity he managed a department of 6,000 employees and an annual budget of more than $500 million.<sup id="cite_ref-Colorado_Department_of_Corrections_Statistics_Report_for_the_2000_Fiscal_Year_4-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap; font-size: 11.2px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Suthers#cite_note-Colorado_Department_of_Corrections_Statistics_Report_for_the_2000_Fiscal_Year-4" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[4]</a></sup></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.4px; color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">In August 2001, Suthers was appointed by President <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_W.Bush" title="George W. Bush" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">George W. Bush</a> as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Attorney" title="United States Attorney" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">United States Attorney</a> for the District of Colorado. He was unanimously confirmed by the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_State_Senate" class="mw-redirect" title="United State Senate" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">United State Senate</a> and assumed the position the week before the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.<sup id="cite_ref-Bonds_between_local_law_enforcement.2C_Muslims_strengthening_5-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap; font-size: 11.2px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Suthers#cite_note-Bonds_between_local_law_enforcement.2C_Muslims_strengthening-5" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[5]</a></sup> During his tenure as U.S. Attorney for the District of Colorado, he led the state's anti-terrorism efforts and his office prosecuted several high-profile white collar cases, including cases against executives of Qwest.<sup id="cite_ref-Qwest_Under_Justice_Dept.Microscope_6-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap; font-size: 11.2px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Suthers#cite_note-Qwest_Under_Justice_Dept.Microscope-6" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[6]</a></sup></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.4px; color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Following the election of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Salazar" title="Ken Salazar" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Ken Salazar</a> to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate" title="United States Senate" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">United States Senate</a>, John Suthers was nominated by Governor Owens and confirmed by the State Senate as the 37th Attorney General of Colorado in January 2005. Suthers served the remaining two years of Salazar's term before running for reelection in 2006. In November 2006, Suthers won election to the Attorney General's Office, defeating challenger Fern O'Brien by nine percent. During the same election cycle, the Republican candidate for Governor, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Beauprez" title="Bob Beauprez" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Bob Beauprez</a>, lost 56–40.<sup id="cite_ref-Election_7-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap; font-size: 11.2px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Suthers#cite_note-Election-7" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[7]</a></sup></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.4px; color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Despite being courted in 2008 and 2010 to run for the U.S. Senate, Suthers chose to run for re-election. Suthers defeated his Democratic opponent, Stan Garnett, in 2010 election by a 14-point margin<sup id="cite_ref-9_News_election_results_for_2010_Colorado_Attorney_General_race_8-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap; font-size: 11.2px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Suthers#cite_note-9_News_election_results_for_2010_Colorado_Attorney_General_race-8" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[8]</a></sup> – the largest margin of victory in a two-way race in Colorado that year. In both 2006 and 2010, Suthers received the endorsement of virtually every major newspaper in Colorado.<sup id="cite_ref-Will_newspaper_endorsements_prove_sage.3F_9-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap; font-size: 11.2px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Suthers#cite_note-Will_newspaper_endorsements_prove_sage.3F-9" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[9]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-John_Suthers_for_AG:News_10-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap; font-size: 11.2px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Suthers#cite_note-John_Suthers_for_AG:News-10" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[10]</a></sup> including The Denver Post, which called him a “tireless public servant.”<sup id="cite_ref-Denver_Post_editorial:A_second_term_for_AG_Suthers_11-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap; font-size: 11.2px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Suthers#cite_note-Denver_Post_editorial:A_second_term_for_AG_Suthers-11" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[11]</a></sup></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.4px; color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Suthers served on the executive committee of the National Association of Attorneys General (NAAG) from 2007 to 2013.<sup id="cite_ref-Attorney_General_appointed_to_NAAG_Executive_Committee_for_fifth_year_in_a_row_12-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap; font-size: 11.2px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Suthers#cite_note-Attorney_General_appointed_to_NAAG_Executive_Committee_for_fifth_year_in_a_row-12" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[12]</a></sup> He chaired the NAAG Criminal Law Committee from 2005 to 2007 and was a member of the U.S. Attorney General’s Executive Working Group on Prosecution from 2005 to 2015.<sup id="cite_ref-John_W.Suthers_CV_2-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap; font-size: 11.2px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Suthers#cite_note-John_W.Suthers_CV-2" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[2]</a></sup> He served as the Chairman of the Conference of Western Attorneys General (CWAG) in 2009-2010.</p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.4px; color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">In December 2008, Suthers personally argued before the U.S. Supreme Court on the case of <i>Kansas vs. Colorado</i>. The issue was decided in favor of Colorado.</p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.4px; color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">In June 2012, Suthers was awarded the Kelley-Wyman Award by the National Association of Attorneys General. It is the highest award given by the Association and is presented annually to the Attorney General who has done the most to advance the interests of the Association.</p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.4px; color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Suthers was the second longest-serving attorney general in Colorado history. Only Duke Dunbar, who served 22 years from 1951-1973, had a longer tenure as Colorado Attorney General.</p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.4px; color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Suthers has served as an adjunct professor at the University of Denver School of Law<sup id="cite_ref-Faculty_Profile:Attorney_General_John_Suthers_13-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap; font-size: 11.2px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Suthers#cite_note-Faculty_Profile:Attorney_General_John_Suthers-13" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[13]</a></sup> and as a scholar in residence at the University of Colorado-Colorado Springs.<sup id="cite_ref-State_Attorney_General_to_Teach_UCCS_Course_14-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap; font-size: 11.2px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Suthers#cite_note-State_Attorney_General_to_Teach_UCCS_Course-14" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[14]</a></sup> He also has held several bar association leadership positions, including president of the El Paso County Bar Association and senior vice president of the Colorado Bar Association.<sup id="cite_ref-John_W.Suthers_CV_2-2" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap; font-size: 11.2px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Suthers#cite_note-John_W.Suthers_CV-2" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[2]</a></sup> He served as Colorado Commissioner on the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws from 1993 to 1997.<sup id="cite_ref-John_W.Suthers_CV_2-3" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap; font-size: 11.2px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Suthers#cite_note-John_W._Suthers_CV-2" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[2]</a></sup></p><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); font-family: "Linux Libertine", Georgia, Times, serif; line-height: 1.3; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="mw-headline" id="Mayor_of_Colorado_Springs">Mayor of Colorado Springs</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select: none; font-size: small; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate; font-family: sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em; color: rgb(85, 85, 85);">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John_Suthers&action=edit§ion=3&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Mayor of Colorado Springs" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0.25em; color: rgb(85, 85, 85);">]</span></span></h2><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.4px; color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">On May 19, 2015 Suthers was elected Mayor of Colorado Springs, defeating former Mayor Mary Lou Makepeace in a runoff election by a 68% to 32%. Colorado Springs is the 40th largest city in the United States.</p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.4px; color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Suthers stated his priorities as restoring a collaborative relationship with City Council and other governmental entities in the Pikes Peak region, addressing the city's infrastructure issues, particularly roads and stormwater, and aggressively promoting new job creation.</p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.4px; color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">In November 2015 his plan to temporarily increase sales taxes for five years in order to raise $250 million to repair roads in Colorado Springs was approved by the City Council 8 - 1 and by voters by a 65% to 35% margin.</p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.4px; color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">In April of 2016, Colorado Springs entered into an intergovernmental agreement with Pueblo County under which the city of Colorado Springs committed to spend at least $460 million over the next 20 years on its stormwater program. The agreement paved the way for a new water delivery project, The Southern Delivery System (SDS), to go online as scheduled. The system is expected to accommodate the growth of Colorado Springs for the next 50 years.</p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.4px; color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">In December 2015, Suthers was awarded the Colorado Governor's Citizenship Medal, the highest award given to a citizen of Colorado, in recognition of his service as attorney general and for his work as Mayor, to put Colorado Springs on a "very positive trajectory."</p><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); font-family: "Linux Libertine", Georgia, Times, serif; line-height: 1.3; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="mw-headline" id="Personal">Personal</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select: none; font-size: small; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate; font-family: sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em; color: rgb(85, 85, 85);">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John_Suthers&action=edit§ion=4&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Personal" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0.25em; color: rgb(85, 85, 85);">]</span></span></h2><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.4px; color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Suthers and his wife Janet have two adult daughters. Alison is a Deputy District Attorney in Denver. Kate is a business analyst for the Defense Department in Pearl Harbor and a Lieutenant Commander in the U.S. Navy Reserves.</p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.4px; color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">He has authored six books, including <i>No Higher Calling, No Greater Responsibility: A Prosecutor Makes His Case</i> (Fulcrum Publishing, 2008).</p><div>
</div><div>=</div><div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">=</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">https://web.archive.org/web/<b>2014</b>0915064009/http://www.denverpost.com/environment/ci_25567240/<b>colorado-oil-drilling-boom-intensifies-voter-initiatives-multiply</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</font></div><div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal !important; font-stretch: normal !important; line-height: 22.652px !important; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Colorado Attorney General John Suthers </b>was walking down Denver's 16th Street Mall recently when a Greenpeace activist asked if he'd like to ban fracking.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal !important; font-stretch: normal !important; line-height: 22.652px !important; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">It reflected the intensifying battle over how to balance public demands for a pristine environment and health versus ramped-up production of fossil fuels.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal !important; font-stretch: normal !important; line-height: 22.652px !important; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Front Range residents have proposed 17 state ballot measures to bolster local control over drilling, short of a statewide ban, and are drawing support from at least one Internet-made multi-millionaire — U.S. Rep. Jared Polis. Coloradans for Local Control campaign adviser Rick Ridder said national groups also will join the fray, fighting the industry's<b> Colorado Oil and Gas Association and Coloradans for Responsible Energy Development</b>. CRED</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal !important; font-stretch: normal !important; line-height: 22.652px !important; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Suthers concluded that "we are, in fact, the ground zero" in the national debate. "There's going to be more and more discussion about the local government-state tension" in regulating industry expansion, he said.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal !important; font-stretch: normal !important; line-height: 22.652px !important; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">And this week in Denver, Suthers is hosting a first summit of states' chief law enforcement officers to address challenges as the expansion outpaces existing rules.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal !important; font-stretch: normal !important; line-height: 22.652px !important; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Among experts called for the forum, Colorado School of Mines petroleum geologist Steve Sonnenberg said he'll describe the scope of the boom. An area northeast of Denver holds 3 billion to 5 billion barrels of untapped oil, Sonnenberg said. While natural gas production is slowing, oil production in Colorado has set records — 63 million barrels in 2013, up from 49 million in 2012. "Now we're transforming back to an oil state," Sonnenberg said.</font></p><div class="articleEmbeddedAdBox" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; line-height: 22px; width: 336px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="articleAdHeader" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;">
</div><div id="dfp-EMBEDDED" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;"><div id="dfp-EMBEDDED_ad_container" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal !important; font-stretch: normal !important; line-height: 22.652px !important; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">For Suthers, the key question is just how far cities and towns can go to shield residents under current law, which establishes an overriding state interest in developing oil and gas. A state lawsuit against Longmont's limits — let alone local bans — has not been decided.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal !important; font-stretch: normal !important; line-height: 22.652px !important; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"If the court says Longmont is free to ban fracking ... that is an earth-shattering reversal by the court," Suthers said in a recent interview with The Denver Post.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal !important; font-stretch: normal !important; line-height: 22.652px !important; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Yet, in practice, Colorado's boom is so intense, with about 52,000 active wells, that companies increasingly negotiate — beyond state permitters — with local officials to craft compromises such as piling hay around equipment to muffle drilling near homes.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal !important; font-stretch: normal !important; line-height: 22.652px !important; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>The 17 proposed ballot measures fall into two groups: one that would amend the constitution to allow tighter local control over oil and gas operations, and another that would require buffer zones statewide up to five times bigger than the 500-foot limit set by the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission.</b></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal !important; font-stretch: normal !important; line-height: 22.652px !important; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">If any voter initiative passes and gives locals power to prohibit owners of oil and gas from extracting it, "a huge consideration will be whether this will amount to a 'taking' of that property by the government," Colorado Municipal League attorney Geoff Wilson said. "If that's the case, a proposal to ban drilling may amount to a proposal that local taxpayers purchase all the affected mineral rights. That could easily make this popular political and policy choice a very expensive one for local taxpayers."</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal !important; font-stretch: normal !important; line-height: 22.652px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">COGA referred questions about industry funding of ballot initiatives to CRED, which said a<b> new group — Protecting Colorado's Environment Economy and Energy Independence</b> — has been formed with $2 million in industry funding to oppose any change in the state constitution on issues already addressed by existing state rules.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal !important; font-stretch: normal !important; line-height: 22.652px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">COGA policy director Doug Flanders said companies "are focused on building rapport and working toward solutions with our communities and stakeholders. We will continue to do that — whatever is on the ballot."</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal !important; font-stretch: normal !important; line-height: 22.652px !important; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><i><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Bruce Finley: 303-954-1700, <a href="mailto:bfinley@denverpost.com" style="transition: 0.1s ease-out;">bfinley@denverpost.com</a> or <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20140915064009/http://twitter.com/finleybruce" style="transition: 0.1s ease-out;">twitter.com/finleybruce</a></font></i></p></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></font></div></div><div>==</div></div></div></div></div>