Gov. Bill Ritter's appointment of former state Rep. Bernie Buescher as Secretary of State was the product of a long process of public applications, interviews and public input. Ritter solicited comments from Coloradans via e-mail, the choicest of which are archived in the FTS Reading Room. But liberal activist group ProgressNow did one better, polling its members in an informal survey and bundling the results in a submission to Ritter.
ProgressNow
Curiously, ProgressNow chose not to publish its readers' comments, just the raw vote count from the preference poll. But under Colorado's open records law, Ritter was required to make public all 116 pages of the packet. (PDF)
Read the comments for yourself, and leave a note below if you stumble across something juicy or notable.