DENVER, CO — Phil Weiser’s campaign for Colorado Governor this week released a new ad showcasing his “closing argument,” which is nothing more than a desperate attempt to mislead voters about Michael Bennet’s work for Colorado. As Michael makes his final pitch to voters with a positive, clear vision for the future of this state, Phil Weiser ends the race on a sad, bitter note.
“Phil Weiser knows he can’t compete with Michael on the facts, experience, or vision for our state, so he’s stooped to running the most negative ads from a campaign Colorado has ever seen,” said Nellie Moran, Bennet for Governor campaign manager. “Phil’s desperate campaign is attempting to mislead voters, but Coloradans know that Michael has been fighting for and standing with immigrant communities his entire career. For a ‘closing argument,’ this is pretty pathetic.”
Because Phil is intentionally misleading voters and using inaccurate citations, here are the actual facts:
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Michael voted against the Laken Riley Act in the Senate and “blasted the bill as bad policy.”
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Michael voted against $256 billion in funding for DHS and ICE.
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Michael voted for broad funding packages that delivered billions of dollars to Colorado communities.
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Of the funding packages Weiser includes in his ad, every single one of them received support from nearly every Democratic Senator.
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Michael is the only candidate in the race for Colorado Governor with a clear plan to block new immigration detention facilities, and has called for the prosecution of ICE agents who break the law, requiring warrants, and banning masks.
This is nothing more than a last-ditch attempt to deflect from the obvious fact that Phil Weiser didn’t care to start suing the Trump Administration until he decided to run for Governor. Before he launched his campaign, Phil was sitting on the sidelines as 20 of his colleagues sued the Trump Administration to put an end to family separation at the border, a decision for which Phil Weiser has yet to offer any coherent reason.
Meanwhile, Michael Bennet has been fighting for Colorado’s immigrant community his entire career whether he was running for office, or not. As Superintendent of Denver Public Schools, he successfully fought to give all Colorado students access to in-state tuition, passed comprehensive immigration reform in the Senate, led the fight to end Trump’s “kids in cages” policy, voted against $256 billion in funding for DHS, and introduced legislation to hold ICE accountable.
