NEWS BRIEF
Colorado Politics reports that Attorney General and Democratic gubernatorial candidate Phil Weiser selected Jefferson County Commissioner Lesley Dahlkemper as his running mate for lieutenant governor on July 22. The article follows Dahlkemper’s move from Colorado Public Radio reporting to education-policy and communications work, then to elected office.
Dahlkemper served on the Jefferson County School Board and later as a county commissioner, where she worked on wildfire resiliency. Her second county commission term ends in November. She told Colorado Politics that, if elected with Weiser, she would work with him to define a substantive, policy-focused lieutenant governor role.
What to know
Colorado Politics describes Dahlkemper’s route from journalism and education policy to the Jefferson County School Board and county commission. She is now Weiser’s lieutenant governor candidate, while the responsibilities she would pursue in that office remain to be determined if their ticket wins.
Reporting: Marianne Goodland · Colorado Politics · 10-03-2026
