Tell AG Suthers to stop misusing his office

Last Wednesday, Colorado’s Attorney General, John Suthers, requested more funding for his office to address the increase of cases to protect Colorado consumers from fraud. (Denver Post, 11/24/2006)

Yet in the Attorney General’s most recent Annual Report, Suthers touts his accomplishments including joining legal battles in other states on such controversial issues as gay marriage in Nebraska and the Pledge of Allegiance in Virginia.

Suthers is now asking the Joint Budget Committee for an increase of $204,000 for his office to enforce consumer protection laws at the same time his office is touting their work on ‘friend-of-the-court briefs” claiming that these cases, and others, are necessary to “protect” Colorado.

(ColoradoConfidential.com, 11/21/2006)

Why is Suthers putting his office resources, paid for by the taxpayers of Colorado, toward politics in other states in front of protecting consumers in Colorado?

We call on Suthers to stop misusing his office—and our taxpayers dollars—to pursue his right-wing legal agenda in other states when important laws to protect Colorado consumers are not being pursued.