From Denver Post:

A March e-mail exchange between Attorney General John Suthers and Boulder District Attorney Stan Garnett appears to show the challenger was an early supporter of the incumbent.

The e-mails recently came to light after Colorado Ethics Watch filed an Open Records Act request seeking information on the costs of Suthers joining in on a lawsuit opposing the health care bill.

Garnett told Suthers he was pulling support for his candidacy because he believes joining the suit is inappropriate.

“Your decision to engage Colorado in this legal battle is cynical and partisan, and outside the appropriate role for a state attorney general,” Garnett wrote in the March 22 e-mail. “Those who wondered why I, as a progressive Democratic DA would endorse a Republican AG, which I was doing as recently as yesterday, will wonder no longer.”

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