Sengenberger: Weiser’s CU intervention reveals his true priorities

By Jimmy Sengenberger | Commentary, Denver Gazette

On Sunday, Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser picked a fight he shouldn’t have.

In a thread on X, Weiser — a Democrat running for governor — defended CU Regent Wanda James by blasting her colleagues for recently censuring and sanctioning her in a bipartisan vote.

The board had censured James, who is a pot shop proprietor, after she tried to discredit and defund the university’s award-winning “Tea on THC” awareness campaign. It educates the public on the risks of marijuana use for kids, including during pregnancy.

James, a Democrat who boasts of being the nation’s first Black owner of a legal retail marijuana business, had demanded earlier this year that the campaign’s website be “taken down immediately” over “racist” illustrations of Black children. Never mind the campaign also used identical images of White children.

The school indulged her, apologized and removed the images — yet James still slammed the campaign as “false and dangerous.” She pushed Gov. Jared Polis’s office to cut its funding and publicly called to redirect the funds to minority-owned marijuana businesses like hers. Two days after she spoke with Polis’s cannabis adviser, the governor’s budget director requested the Legislature eliminate the funding altogether.

READ THE FULL COMMENTARY AT THE DENVER GAZETTE

Editor’s note: Opinions expressed in commentary pieces are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of the management of the Rocky Mountain Voice, but even so we support the constitutional right of the author to express those opinions.