{"id":1203,"date":"2026-05-20T13:36:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T13:36:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/denvermovingchronicle.com\/?p=1203"},"modified":"2026-05-20T13:36:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T13:36:12","slug":"letter-put-weiser-in-the-state-capitol-keep-bennet-in-dc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/denvermovingchronicle.com\/?p=1203","title":{"rendered":"LETTER: Put Weiser in the State Capitol, keep Bennet in DC"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>EDITOR<\/strong>: Colorado voters will have to choose between Democrats Sen. Michael Bennet and Attorney General Phil Weiser in the upcoming June 30 Primary Election for gubernatorial nominee.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It is a critical imperative to understand the weighty problem of having to choose to bring Bennet back to Colorado. Voters have already sent him to Washington, and to date, he has little administrative experience except for a relatively short term as Denver Public Schools superintendent. Bennet\u2019s recent naked rhetorical references would have us believe otherwise.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, Weiser has served as Colorado\u2019s attorney general since 2018. His constant work protecting Colorado citizens\u2019 legal and constitutional rights should continue by electing him governor. 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Michael Bennet and Attorney General Phil Weiser in the upcoming June 30 Primary Election for gubernatorial nominee.\u00a0 It is a critical imperative to understand the weighty problem of having to choose to bring Bennet back to Colorado. Voters have already sent him to Washington, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1202,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[1734,1735,192,1169,1736,988],"class_list":["post-1203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-opinion","tag-attorney-general-phil-weiser","tag-bernie-rogoff","tag-colorado-voters","tag-governor","tag-sen-michael-bennet","tag-washington"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>LETTER: Put Weiser in the State Capitol, keep Bennet in DC - Denver Moving Chronicle<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/denvermovingchronicle.com\/?p=1203\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"LETTER: Put Weiser in the State Capitol, keep Bennet in DC - Denver Moving Chronicle\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"EDITOR: Colorado voters will have to choose between Democrats Sen. 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