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COLORADO SPRINGS, COLO. -- Colorado Democrats want to recall the attorney general for challenging healthcare reform.

Colorado Attorney General John Suthers announced Monday he was joining the lawsuit to challenge health care reform as unconstitutional.

More than a dozen mostly-Republican attorneys general across the country are pressing the suit.

But now Colorado Democrats want to recall Suthers, saying the suit is a waste of time and money.

Suthers says even though the attorneys general are mostly Republican this move isn’t politically motivated.

But Democrats say it is a political ploy that will waste taxpayer dollars.

FOX21 News spoke to the executive director of the El Paso County Democratic Party. She supports statewide efforts to recall state Attorney General John Suthers in response to his lawsuit against the new health care reform.

"He's showing that it’s not Colorado that he cares about right now. He cares about joining with the Republicans to fight anything that will better the lives of Colorado families," said El Paso County Democrats executive director Christy LeLait.

FOX21 News spoke to John by phone from Denver. He says for him the suit is not political.

"I think for a lot of people it is. It isn’t for me. I’m not expressing any opinions about the health care bill itself. That’s not my role," Suthers said.

Suthers says Congress has gone beyond what the Constitution allows them to do.

"Congress is attempting to use for the first time in our history the interstate commerce power to regulate people who choose not to engage in a commercial activity by forcing them to participate in a commercial activity -- in this case, buy insurance," Suthers said.

But state Democrats say the lawsuit will waste taxpayer dollars and that’s why they want to recall Suthers.

"I think it’s a good way to show how opposed people are to what he is doing now, and we've gotten a lot of calls and I know his office has gotten a lot of calls in opposition to the lawsuit," LeLait said.

Suthers says if the courts agree Congress can force people to buy insurance then there will be no limit to what Congress can force Americans to buy.

Democrats say that is fear-mongering.