Obama Administration May Have Offered Romanoff A Job To Deter Senate Run: The Denver Post

The Denver Post:

WASHINGTON -- Not long after news leaked last month that Andrew Romanoff was determined to make a Democratic primary run against Sen. Michael Bennet, Romanoff received an unexpected communication from one of the most powerful men in Washington.

Read the whole story: The Denver Post

Comments

[MarieFara]

03:51 AM on 09/29/2009

MAY HAVE offered him a job?
This is what I'm disliking about huffpost. They put these headlines about Obama out there, people jump on them... get all worked up and upset thinking Obama betrayed them and a few days later there's a new headline "Obama didn't really do that". The problem is that not very many people notices the retraction headlines, just the originals.

[DimBulb2]

04:14 PM on 09/28/2009

BFD
next.................

[Tom95134]

12:02 PM on 09/28/2009

So what?

[GiveUsFree]

10:39 AM on 09/28/2009

I may have been a billionaire in another life. Alas, I am only a hundredaire.

[secret38b]

03:55 AM on 09/29/2009

Lol!.....:o)

[OneEarthling]

10:01 AM on 09/28/2009

Simple politics, if true. It happens in every industry and business, including government.

Bennet was appointed to Ken Salazar's seat after Obama selected Salazar as Sec of Interior. It was a move that got a DINO out of the Senate but Bennet was an unexpected pick by the Governor and not very strong statewide.

Background:
http://www.gazette.com/articles/romanoff-62132-bennet-ritter.html

[highlyamused]

08:53 AM on 09/28/2009

Obama Administration May Have Offered Colorado Pol A Job To Deter Senate Run

May have??

Well you get back to us when that "May have" turns into a 'did'.

[ljc]

07:42 AM on 09/28/2009

Breaking News.....Someone in the Obama Administration "may have" inhaled before they exhaled. Fox News in investigating this bizarre behavior...

[dems08]

05:13 AM on 09/28/2009

and this is news... why?

why should President Obama use his influence to LEGALLY try and influence who gets elected?

[dems08]

05:14 AM on 09/28/2009

why 'shouldn't'

[OneLiberalLady]

09:44 AM on 09/28/2009

I totally agree with you. If you were to say Obama offered an UNQUALIFIED person a job to deter a competitive run, that might be news. The rest is just....POLITICS.

[NationalTreasure]

02:52 AM on 09/28/2009

and how is this bit of cronyism any different or worse than offering jobs, cabinet positions and ambassardorships to the Clintons, former Clinton staffers, other democrats and republicans?

[DevonTexas]

08:17 AM on 09/28/2009

or, more recently, the eight years of cronyism and cprruption by the Bush Regime!

[OneLiberalLady]

09:48 AM on 09/28/2009

Get back to us when you can explain how any of the people you allude to are unqualified for their jobs.....unlike say, Alberto Gonzales, Michael Brown (FEMA) , Harriet Meiers (prospectuve SCt Justice)....many in the Justice Department who were from inferior law schools but were hired because they toed the line by hating, say, Planned Parenthood and the ACLU.....

[ObamanextPresident]

12:42 AM on 09/28/2009

This looks more like another attempt by the Corporate Media to sully the Obama administration and the Democratic party by stirring up controversy where there is none. (a comment from another at David Sirota's article regarding this same article)

This is the source (?) which the Denver Post has given credence to...an ANONYMOUS source....

"Yet several top Colorado Democrats described Messina's outreach to Romanoff to The Post, including the discussion of specific jobs in the administration. They asked for anonymity because of the sensitivity of the subject."

This article was an unscrupulous plant either by Romanoff people or the great rightwing conspiracy which, as Clinton says, is alive and well....

ALERT: We must all be vigilant for fake, unscrupulous articles without basis.

[OneLiberalLady]

09:50 AM on 09/28/2009

All that you say is true, but the core is this: there is nothing wrong with offering a job to a qualified person. Period.

[Proxy11]

12:12 AM on 09/28/2009

Denver Post meet Politics. Politics meet Denver Post.

[jsgaetano]

12:36 AM on 09/28/2009

Yeah, really.

This is what's called "politicing". They may have heard of it... but obviously they probably haven't.

[Rmtns]

12:30 PM on 09/28/2009

For those of you that may be unfamiliar with Colorado politics and "the" newspaper in Colorado, The Denver Post is the only major newspaper in Colorado, having disposed of it's only rival through a merger and joint operating agreement last year. The right wing has been firmly in control of the news in Colorado for years, a strategy that had meant that the state was firmly Republican, until more and more intelligent, thinking people moved to Colorado as a result, the state has become more and more progressive. There are areas of this state that have not been blessed with some intelligent influx, like Montrose and Grand Junction, where there are an overwhelming influx of oil field workers and, I hate to say it Texans, skews the IQ downward. Now that the gas field development is slowing, I have high hopes that the intelligence of the Western Slope (and the rest ) of Colorado will return to a normal state soon.

[ChiGuy]

10:01 PM on 09/27/2009

Big deal.
This sort of political backroom dealing goes on virtually every day.

[Dbos]

09:42 PM on 09/27/2009

May rain tomorrow . Same importance as this story

[jsgaetano]

12:36 AM on 09/28/2009

Actually, I think tomorrow's weather is orders of magnitude more important than this story.

[CollegeConservative86]

07:52 PM on 09/27/2009

Wow, comparing 0bama to Rove? You know the Denver Post is getting a call from Rahm 'Dead Fish' Emanuel there....

[Hopeington]

07:46 PM on 09/27/2009

Once I read that the teller's of the tale were anonymous , I have to tell ya, I quit reading.
Just another "I know it's true, I just made it up" story.
When are we going to realize the Republican party is using fear tactics on us too, they're just using a different conversation on us than they use on their constituents.
I won't believe what can't be verified.

[NO-LIE]

09:55 PM on 09/27/2009

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ry-rTHOpgxE&feature=related

Keep it up.......

[Hopeington]

11:15 PM on 09/27/2009

Nope, I don't think I can trust you.