The Post Editorial Consider three pragmatic public servants

Over the years Colorado has had constitutional officers who have been honey badgers, relentless in their political machinations, and absentee figure heads, biding their time before they can bid for higher office.

This year, voters have good options, somewhere between those two extremes.

We suggest: for attorney general, George Brauchler; for secretary of state, Wayne Williams; and for treasurer, Dave Young.

These are pragmatic leaders who will operate the state’s law firm, election division and bank with efficiency and efficacy. found creative ways to incentivize counties to invest in new, secure voting equipment that maintain paper ballots — a prescient move made long before Russia ever tried to hack the electronic voting systems in other states. Coloradans can now be confident in secure elections.

Williams is criticized by his opponent Jena Griswold, a firsttime candidate with a promising future, for opposing the 2013 voting reform package that allowed sameday voter registration and required ballots be mailed to every voter.

But many of the technical details Williams raised in opposition to the bill six years ago, have been implemented through subsequent legislative “fixes.”

Williams has also lowered fees that are charged on businesses that register with his agency. Those fees fund his entire office.

Williams’ office is a bastion of transparency.

We’ll admit we were surprised that he used his discretionary fund to, early in his firstterm in office, buy a tuxedo and outlandishly expensive boots and a cowboy hat for the State Fair junior livestock sale known as the Denver Rustlers.

It was an error in judgement, but also wellwithin the legal uses of a discretionary fund established for our constitutional officers.