phil weiser
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Election Preview 2018 | Voters to choose new attorney general, treasurer
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After the November election, besides a new governor, Colorado also will have a new chief legal officer and a new state financial manager. The attorney general seat is open because the Republican who currently holds the office, Cynthia Coffman, ran for governor instead, though she failed to secure her party’s nomination in the primary. That…
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New Weiser ad in Colo. AG’s race from creator of Hick’s shower spot
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Attorney general candidate Phil Weiser totes a whiteboard around the state asking Coloradans what rights they want him to protect in a television ad the Democrat released Friday. Dubbed “Whiteboard,” the 30-second ad begins with Weiser wheeling the contraption through the streets of downtown Denver and finishes on the shores of a lake with family…
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Colo. AG candidates trade barbs, talk priorities at Denver debate
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Candidates for Colorado attorney general knocked each other and disagreed over how the state’s top law enforcement official can best serve the people at a Wednesday night debate in Denver. Republican candidate George Brauchler hammered home his courtroom experience at the debate, hosted by the Federalist Society, a conservative legal group. He also noted that…
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SLOAN | Will Colorado’s centrist Democrats join national lurch to the left?
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The Democratic Party, like most political parties that feel themselves on the verge of some sweeping victory, is having an uneasy conversation with itself, to say the least. The radicals, intoxicated on revolutionary fervor and smelling blood in the water, seem to be convinced that the new age has finally dawned, and the time is…
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Republican AGs spending big on TV ad attacking ‘professor’ Phil Weiser
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The Republican Attorneys General Association is asking Colorado voters if they want to elect a professor or a prosecutor as their next attorney general in the group’s second television ad, which began airing across the state Wednesday. The ad contrasts Democratic nominee Phil Weiser, a former official in the Obama administration’s Justice Department and dean…
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Colo. left out of Justice Dept. meeting on social-media political bias
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Colorado so far does not have a seat at the table for a politically-fraught Sept. 25 meeting between U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions and a bipartisan group of 24 state attorneys general to discuss consumer-protection and antitrust complaints against social media companies. Sessions first invited just Republican attorneys general to the meeting, which will include…
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Attorney general, congressional candidates debate at Club 20
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GRAND JUNCTION – Club 20’s Saturday night debate lineup featured the first face-to-face confrontation between the major party candidates for the state’s 3rd Congressional District and a lively debate – the second but most intense to date – between the major party candidates for attorney general. The Club 20 debates mark the unofficial start to…
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Money flowing into governor’s race tops $21M
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More than $27.7 million has flowed into campaign coffers of all kinds in Colorado in the most recent reporting period, from July 28 to Aug. 29, according to the secretary of state’s campaign finance system, TRACER. GOVERNOR’S RACE Campaign contributions to the two major party candidates in the race for governor have reached $21.37 million.…
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COVER STORY | Energy, environment at forefront of Colo. AG’s race
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From standing up to President Donald Trump to gun control, there are a lot of issues where George Brauchler and Phil Weiser diverge dramatically. But there’s no starker distinction between the two candidates for Colorado attorney general than on the twin topics of energy and the environment. And it’s over those issues that Brauchler and…
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Does AG candidate Phil Weiser represent Colorado? Do his opponents?
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There’s subtle irony in Colorado Rising Action’s recent video questioning whether Democratic Attorney General candidate Phil Weiser is in touch with the state’s moral standards. “Phil Weiser wants to be Colorado’s next attorney general, but does he stand for the centennial state’s values?” says the video, which Colorado Rising Action released via social media Thursday.…
