Bernie Buescher is an American politician who served as secretary of state of Colorado. A Democrat, he was appointed to the office in 2009 by Governor of Colorado Bill Ritter to fill the vacancy left by the resignation of Republican Mike Coffman.
After law school, Buescher returned to Grand Junction and joined the law firm of Williams, Turner and Holmes, where he practiced corporate law until 1987; that year he became president and CEO of West Star Aviation. In 1996, Governor Roy Romer asked Buescher to serve as interim manager for the Colorado State Fair. Romer then appointed Buescher as executive director of the Colorado Department of Health Care Policy and Financing in 1997. Buescher resigned in 1998. ==Politics==
Politics
In the 1998 Colorado gubernatorial election, Buescher was the Democratic candidate for lieutenant governor, running alongside Gail Schoettler, the candidate for governor. The candidacy was unsuccessful. In 2004 Buescher was elected to represent the 55th district in the Colorado House of Representatives. He was re-elected in 2006. He ran again in 2008 but was defeated by Republican Laura Bradford. However, in January 2024, Polis fired Buescher from the board and replaced him with a Republican designee. The firing came after Buescher voted with the board to reverse a tax break granted to property owners in Douglas County, Colorado enacted by the county's board of commissioners. ==See also==