Following up on a news report aired Tuesday night, Face The State managing editor Brad Jones visited with Fox 31 News anchor Ken Clark this morning to discuss the slate of 20 applicants for the position of Colorado Secretary of State.

In case you missed it: Denver's Fox 31 News tonight picked up on Face The State's in-depth coverage of the slate of 20 applicants vying for appointment to the position of Secretary of State. Gov. Bill Ritter is in a position to appoint a new Secretary of State on the occasion of current officeholder Mike Coffman's election to the U.S. Congress.

Covering a story first reported by Face The State, Fox 31 News this week detailed Gov. Bill Ritter's plan to award to state employees an extra day of paid vacation time this holiday season. Republican lawmakers, including state Rep. Frank McNulty, R-Highlands Ranch, called the plan "reckless."

In his inaugural address, Gov. Bill Ritter, a Democrat, promised a state government that was open and transparent to the people. But his administration has fallen far short of that goal, as revealed in a Fox 31 TV report Monday. Now, in the aftermath of the State Patrol's refusal to release flight records to Face The State, lawmakers are asking if Ritter will ever live up to his lofty rhetoric.