Colorado Republican Business Coalition
www.smallbizgop.com

Attorney General John Suthers
Liberty Day President & Founder Andy McKean  www.libertyday.org

Friday, July 16, 2010
11:30 a.m. - 1 p.m.
Brooklyn's Restaurant
9th & Auraria Pkwy, across from Pepsi Center,
$1 parking Lot A - tell attendant you're going to Brooklyn's
Member: $17; non-members $20; elected officials and students $15
Menu choices. RSVP: repgop@gmail.com (not required, but appreciated)

John W. Suthers is a lifetime resident of Colorado. His legal careers included service as chief deputy district attorney in Colorado Springs, where he headed the Economic Crime Division of the DA's office. He was in private practice as a litigation partner until he was elected in 1988 as district attorney of the Fourth Judicial District. He was elected to a second term in 1992; he returned to private practice in 1997.

In 1999, Mr. Suthers was appointed head of the Colorado Department of Corrections, an organization with almost 6,000 employees and an annual operational budget of approximately $500 million.

In 2001, Mr. Suthers was nominated by President George W. Bush to be the United States Attorney for the District of Colorado. He was unanimously confirmed by the U.S. Senate to represent the United States in all criminal and civil matters within the District of Colorado.

On January 4, 2005, Mr. Suthers was appointed Attorney General of Colorado and was elected in 2006 by a large margin. He stands for re-election this year. In his tenure as Attorney General, Mr. Suthers has initiated successful programs to protect children from Internet predators and to reduce mortgage and foreclosure fraud.

John and his wife, Janet, have been married for 32 years and have two daughters, Alison, a lawyer in Denver, and Kate, a graduate business student and Lieutenant in the Navy Reserve in Honolulu. Suthers has authored five books, including his most recent, No Higher Calling, No Greater Responsibility: A Prosecutor Makes His Case (Fulcrum Publishing, 2008).

He graduated magna cum laude from the University of Notre Dame with a degree in government and from the University of Colorado Law School.

Andy McKean co-founded Liberty Day www.libertyday.org with his late wife Kathy in 1996. A former elementary school teacher and Peace Corps volunteer, Andy's passion for educating the public about the Constitution began in the 1990s, when he and his wife worked with the Denver Lions Club to provide hundreds of inner-city kids with a groundbreaking literacy program.

The week before July 4, Andy asked the kids the purpose of the holiday; the children would not be meeting the following week because of Independence Day. He recalled asking the kids about the experience. "'One kid said, 'We do fireworks.' Another said, 'We have a barbecue.' Out of 218 kids, no one knew the reason. Not one."

Inspired by the experience, he and Kathy launched Liberty Day, a Denver-based nonprofit, nonpartisan organization dedicated to educating all Americans, but especially the next generation, about the contents of the Constitution of the United States. Liberty Day provides teachers with a Complete Educational Resource on the U.S. Constitution. Its mentoring program will be of particular interest to CRBC attendees.