From TimesCall.com:

Stan Garnett, Boulder County’s district attorney and the Democratic candidate for state attorney general, thinks Attorney General John Suthers is too political.

“The attorney general should be the people’s lawyer,” Garnett said at a recent debate between the two candidates for the office.

Suthers, however, told the Times-Call this week that in his lengthy legal career, he’s been accused of “not being political enough.”

Garnett has accused Suthers of being an ideologue and criticized him for joining other states in a lawsuit against the provision in health care legislation that mandates every American have health insurance.

Suthers sees that move as defending federalism and, by extension, the state and all Coloradans. Suthers says the provision in question is an unprecedented expansion of federal power over states that could lead to other mandates. If the federal government can order citizens to purchase health insurance, nothing can stop it in the future from mandating that everyone install solar panels or purchase fuel-efficient vehicles, rather than the current practice of offering rebates or tax incentives to further such causes.

If that happens, Suthers asks, “What’s left of federalism? I submit, not much.”

Whatever you think of the health care legislation, Suthers makes a compelling argument that he’s doing his job of protecting Coloradans, rather than being too political.

We tend to agree.

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