From the Attorney General’s office:

 “Let me say at the outset that I really love serving as Attorney General of Colorado. As I’ve told many people, I take great joy in having had the privilege of winning, what I like to call, ‘the legal trifecta’ – being able to serve as District Attorney, U.S. Attorney, and now, as Attorney General. That’s an important fact to keep in mind in trying to make sense out of what follows.

“I find myself the only Republican holding statewide office in Colorado. With all the political developments taking place in the state and an election for Governor and the U.S. Senate looming in 2010, there’s a lot of speculation about who’s going to run for what. And I’m part of that speculation. Because of the enormous cost of campaigns today, people need to make decisions fairly early in the political process. I spent the last month talking to literally hundreds of people about various possibilities before coming to the decision I’m announcing today. I’m doing it now because I believe it’s important to let people know where I stand before the county central committee and Republican Lincoln Day dinner circuit begins in February.

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