Our post last week about the embarassing delay in selecting a U.S. Attorney for Colorado was titled: And Then There Was One. The Denver Post picks up on that theme today, because now, apparently, there is none.
And then there was none. The last of three candidates hoping to become U.S. attorney for Colorado dropped out of contention Monday, saying he got word from the presidential administration that it wanted to consider other candidates.
“I had gotten a call from the White House indicating they had gone in a different direction,” said Jim Peters, who had been the district attorney for the 18th Judicial District, which includes Douglas, Arapahoe, Elbert and Lincoln counties.
Sean Conway, chief of staff for U.S. Sen. Wayne Allard, R-Colo., said the senator would probably forward a new list to the White House by the end of the week. A contender for the job, Conway said, is Bill Leone, who has held the job on an interim basis for the past year.
If by “contender” he means “the only one left,” then Leone probably has as good a shot as anybody. But at this rate, we’ll have a new President before we have a new U.S. Attorney.
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Bill Leone does not have the confidence of the DOJ. He will not be nominated.
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