(Editor's note: The Post Independent had the opportunity to sit down with the Republican and Democrat candidates running for Colorado Attorney General, George Brauchler and Phil Weiser, respectively, who were both in Glenwood Springs last week. We offer a two-part profile of the candidates and their responses to some key issues, beginning today with Brauchler.)

Candidate Background

George Brauchler grew up in Lakewood. The Republican candidate vying for the seat of Colorado Attorney General holds a degree in economics and political science from the University of Colorado-Boulder, as well as a law degree from CU. Currently, Brauchler works as the district attorney for the 18th Judicial District.

Brauchler, also, since 9/11, served as the chief military justice for Fort Carson, and later, for the U.S. Division-North, 4th Infantry Division in Tikrit, Iraq. A colonel in the Colorado Army National Guard, Brauchler, in that capacity, among other callings, acts as a legal advisor for NORAD/NORTHCOM.

Federal government oversight

Brauchler told the Post Independent, until President Barack Obama and his successor President Donald Trump, AG races, frankly, were "sleepy kind of seats where [attorney generals] just got the job of executing the laws and defending the Constitution."

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According to Brauchler, over the course of the Obama administrations' eight years in the West Wing, 47 bipartisan lawsuits were filed against the federal government.

"In almost every single one, it was to push back against federal overreach," Brauchler said. "And, then, what you've seen in the last 18 months is that all Democrat AGs have gotten together and filed more than 47 lawsuits. … We're now in a place where [Democratic AGs] have eclipsed in 18 months what was done in eight years under President Obama, but it's for a different reason. It is not to push back on federal

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