After months of being told by Pueblo Deputy District Attorney Jim Corsi "don't waste the money to come to Colorado on a charge I am going to dismiss..." and then a month before the 2008 Presidential Election have the case taken from him and reassigned (all while Obama surrogates/supporters, including Politico's Ben Smith et. al. were publicly calling for and threatening my imminent arrest) it has become clear to me why Pueblo District Attorney Bill Thiebaut has allowed a warrant to stand for a crime that his office KNOWS never took place.
It seems Mr. Thiebaut was one of three people recommended by former Colorado Senator Ken Salazar to be appointed by Barack Obama to U.S. Attorney for Colorado.
By ROBERT BOCZKIEWICZ
THE PUEBLO CHIEFTAIN
DENVER - Longtime Pueblo Democratic figure Bill Thiebaut is getting a second chance to become President Barack Obama's choice to fill the post of U.S. attorney for Colorado.
Obama's first choice, Stephanie Villafuerte of Denver, on Monday withdrew from consideration while her nomination was pending in the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee.
The president's Sept. 30 nomination of her became increasingly controversial and under fire from some conservatives and critics of illegal immigrants.
Questions flared whether she was involved in illegally accessing a national crime database to support the campaign of her boss, now-Gov. Bill Ritter.
Thiebaut, the Pueblo County district attorney, and Denver attorney John Walsh, a former federal prosecutor, are likely again to be considered by the president. They and Villafuerte were the three persons former U.S. Sen. Ken Salazar and new Sen. Mark Udall recommended to the president in January. Democrat Obama is likely to listen carefully to Salazar, a close ally, and to Democrat Udall, the state's senior senator.
Udall wrote in a statement Monday, "It's important now for the White House to move quickly to nominate a new U.S. attorney candidate." He said he will encourage the White House to look at the list containing the remaining names of Thiebaut and Walsh.
