Jena Griswold, current Secretary of State, is running for Attorney General in Colorado. She emphasizes her experience in guiding the Colorado Department of State through significant threats to democracy.
Qualifications and Priorities
Griswold highlights her seven years of statewide executive leadership experience, including working on high-profile elections and democracy issues. She notes her role in stopping the Postmaster General from sending out incorrect voter information in 2020 and advocating to disqualify Trump from Colorado’s ballot.
Her top policy priorities include protecting democracy, freedoms, and the state, as well as standing up to Trump and MAGA extremists. She also plans to focus on safeguarding civil rights, fighting for workers, and protecting access to reproductive care, including birth control and abortion access.
Griswold further emphasizes the need to address the rape kit backlog in the state, ensuring that victims of sexual violence can seek justice and have their DNA evidence processed quickly and respectfully.
Original reporting: KRDO (Colorado Springs metro) — read the source article.