Instead, he said he plans to vote for independent candidate Greg Lopez. I like Phil Weiser personally, and I think he’s a smart guy, but I couldn’t vote for him. Conspiracist podcaster Joe Oltmann, who dropped out of the gubernatorial race before the primary, is also backing Lopez over Marx. Wadhams continued, “There will be a lot of conservative-leaning and unaffiliated voters who say, we don’t like Weiser, he’s too ideologically liberal. We can’t vote for Marx, we’re gonna vote for Greg Lopez.