December 14, 2008 04:29 PM UTC

Ken Gordon: Ken Gordon For Sec. State

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• by: Colorado Pols

In an email sent to supporters last night, which may do more harm than good:

The Governor’s office has announced the three finalists for Secretary of State.  I am one of them. Mike Coffman will be resigning at the end of the year so the Governor, who makes the appointment, will be choosing the new Secretary fairly soon. The Governor is taking comments on his selection at this email address: sos.comments@state.co.us. If you would like to offer an opinion now on the final three applicants use the email address sos.comments@state.co.us.

I appreciate the large number of you who voted for me in the Progress Now poll. If you would like to offer an opinion now on the final three applicants use the email address sos.comments@state.co.us. If you make a comment, and wouldn’t mind letting me see what you said, copy me at ken@kengordon.com.

The other two finalists are Bernie Buescher and Andrew Romanoff. They are both fine public servants and I believe, regardless of the outcome of this current selection process, they will both find a place in public life where they can make a contribution.

I can’t help but think, however, that I am the most qualified for the Secretary of State position and have the most focused interest in the issues that are dealt with in that office.

If I am appointed you will have a fair Secretary who will do everything possible to ensure that Colorado’s elections are honest, accessible and transparent and who will be an advocate for the greatest possible participation by citizens in their government.

Some of you have been reading my emails for years. Some of you walked with me across the state for Referenda C and D. Some of you came to postcard parties when I formed “This Matters” during the 2004 cycle. Some of you volunteered or contributed in 2000 when I took a seat that had never previously been held by a member of my party, or in 2006 when I nearly won the Secretary of State’s office. You have seen me swim with sharks and jump out of an airplane…

Nothing in here says why Gordon thinks he’s more qualified than Romanoff or Buescher, but go ahead and take his word for it.