Beeson is the district attorney in Colorado's 9th Judicial District, which covers the counties of Rio Blanco, Garfield and Pitkin. They are three of the 29 counties that are wholly or partly in the 3rd, a 54,000-square mile expanse of western and southern Colorado. In the 2008 presidential election, those three counties comprised about one-ninth of the total district vote, according to a CQ Politics analysis.
The district has a generic conservative lean, particularly in Mesa County in and around Grand Junction; CQ Politics determined that Colorado's 3rd backed John McCain over Barack Obama by a margin of 50 percent to 48 percent. Yet Salazar, a member of the influential Appropriations Committee, was handily re-elected in 2006 and 2008, winning 62 percent of the vote each time.
Beeson became district attorney in December 2005, when area voters also recalled the incumbent district attorney, for whom Beeson once worked as a deputy. Beeson was re-elected in 2008 without opposition.
An August 2008 profile in the Vail Daily newspaper noted that Beeson taught law and business classes in China, where he met his wife.
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