{"id":132165,"date":"2026-06-07T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-07T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/weiser-should-remain-in-colorado-leadership\/"},"modified":"2026-06-07T05:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-07T11:00:00","slug":"weiser-should-remain-in-colorado-leadership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/weiser-should-remain-in-colorado-leadership\/","title":{"rendered":"Weiser should remain in Colorado leadership"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image naviga-align-left alignleft naviga-size-small\" data-naviga-align=\"left\" data-naviga-size=\"small\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=444be12e-8a22-5663-a3c7-8a0120a780ac&#038;function=cover&#038;type=preview&#038;source=false&#038;width=2000\" srcset=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=444be12e-8a22-5663-a3c7-8a0120a780ac&#038;function=cover&#038;type=preview&#038;source=false&#038;width=800 800w, https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=444be12e-8a22-5663-a3c7-8a0120a780ac&#038;function=cover&#038;type=preview&#038;source=false&#038;width=1200 1200w, https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=444be12e-8a22-5663-a3c7-8a0120a780ac&#038;function=cover&#038;type=preview&#038;source=false&#038;width=1800 1800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 2000px\" width=\"1628\" height=\"931\" alt=\"\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>Colorado voters will have to choose between Sen. Michael Bennet and Attorney General Phil Weiser in the upcoming June 30 Democratic primary election for governor.<\/p>\n<p>It is important to understand the weighty question of whether to bring Bennet back to Colorado. Voters have already sent him to Washington and, to date, he has had relatively little administrative experience outside of a short tenure as Denver Public Schools superintendent. Bennet\u2019s recent 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 Coloradans\u2019 legal and constitutional rights should continue by electing him governor. Bennet should remain in Washington for the reasons we sent him there.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bernie Rogoff<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em id=\"emphasis-1e333606561068646229a944cb3d7a5e\">Greenwood Village<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em id=\"emphasis-9d7b0e4fcccc911d0f0fa858705033d0\">Editor\u2019s note: Bernie Rogoff was awarded the Ambassador of Peace Medal in 1954, served as post commander for the Jewish War Veterans of the United States, is a commissioner with the Veterans Affairs Commission for the city of Aurora and is executive director of the Colfax Community Network.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colorado voters will have to choose between Sen. Michael Bennet and Attorney General Phil Weiser in the upcoming June 30 Democratic primary election for governor. It is important to understand the weighty question of whether to bring Bennet back to Colorado. Voters have already sent him to Washington and, to date, he has had relatively [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13886,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5820,5819],"tags":[125],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-132165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-letters-to-the-editor","category-opinion","tag-newsletter-opinion"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132165\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132165"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=132165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}