Phil Weiser, 58, Colorado’s attorney general, is in a heated race against U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet, 61, for the Democratic nomination for governor. They are friends and share mostly similar progressive, Democratic policy views. Primary election day is June 30. Weiser first came to Colorado in 1994 and was a longtime professor and dean of the CU Law School at Boulder. He won election in 2018 (by 51.6%) and was reelected in 2022 (54% of the vote) as Colorado’s 39th attorney general. He oversees a staff of over 700 people, that includes more than 400 attorneys, located in the Ralph Carr Judicial Building just west of the state Capitol in Denver.          Unlike in Washington, D.C., Colorado’s attorney general is elected separately and not a member of the governor’s cabinet. Weiser won his place on this year’s primary ballot by receiving about 90% of the vote at this spring’s Democratic Party state assembly. Bennet petitioned his way on to the ballot.…