August 01, 2005 08:00 AM UTC

Replacing Donetta Davidson

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• by: Colorado Pols

With the ink barely dry on Secretary of State Donetta Davidson’s confirmation to the Federal Election Assistance Commission, potential replacements are lining up at the gate.

Among those voicing interest in a candidacy for Secretary of State are former state Legislator Polly Baca and current state Rep. Fran Coleman, who is also mulling a run for Dan Grossman’s State Senate seat. Mike Coffman has announced his intention to run as well, as everybody knows.

Conspicuously absent, even from the list of potential temporary appointees, is former Colorado HAVA office director Drew Durham. Once Davidson’s right-hand man (he even presided over last year’s general election when Davidson was forced to leave town with a family emergency), Durham is rumored to have fallen out with Davdison and quietly disappeared from the Secretary of State’s office in May. He now serves as “Inspector General” at the Department of Labor, a position that we’re told didn’t even exist until just a few weeks before Durham accepted it.

Of course, with the massive SCORE voter database contract safely in Accenture’s hands (much like the $39 million contract Accenture received from the Department of Labor during Mr. Durham’s previous stint there in 2001-02), some insiders say that Drew Durham’s work at SOS is already done.