Romanoff Campaign Struggles to Make Money

"but how is he going to seal the deal in August?"

Answer: By getting more votes than his opponent.

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by: Mucius Scaevola @ Wed Apr 21, 2010 at 06:49:57 AM UTC

It's so simple isn't it?

 

Senator Buck will give me a great sense of "Buyers Remorse" in the way that it would feel like my Senator was screwing me over.  

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by: thegreatandpowerfuloz @ Wed Apr 21, 2010 at 12:25:14 PM UTC

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I am in a Steve Harvey kind of mood

So I will quote 17th century Scottish poetry:

If Wishes were Horses...

If wishes were horses then beggars would ride,
If turnips were swords I'd have one by my side.
If 'ifs' and hands were pots and pans
There would be no need for tinkers hands!

 

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by: peacemonger @ Thu Apr 22, 2010 at 14:48:00 PM UTC

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No way,

Steve Harvey would never write anything so brief and comprehensible.  

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by: Mucius Scaevola @ Thu Apr 22, 2010 at 22:25:22 PM UTC

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No it isn't

That doesn't answer the question at all.

If it wasn't implied that I'm inquiring about strategy, then it's obvious.

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by: OH!4CryingOutLoud @ Thu Apr 22, 2010 at 20:27:12 PM UTC

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A tough spot for AR...

Monetarily and statistically. Can Romentum be carried through August? The Federal funds Bennet procured for 2010 are starting to come in.  Voters working for companies like Springs Fabrication know who helped secure their $1.8 million in funding from the Feds - a company AR praised as a manufacturing success story.  The main concern among voters in CO is jobs.

A campaign's financial health has a lot to do with the candidate.  For a State that is seeking fiscal responsibility - spending all your resources isn't a great message. By contrast Bennet has accrued $1.4 and bringing in 25 times that in program funding for CO.

So how does AR get more votes and seal the deal in August - the $1.4 million question?  To answer Peter's question, it's me, and a bunch of other small donors.  In reality - outside the Romentum - we just have more contributors than AR.

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by: Just Anita @ Wed Apr 21, 2010 at 23:34:00 PM UTC

Thereagain (is that really a word?)

It is possible, yet extremely unlikely, Team Romanoff could coast through on financial fumes to the primary and win it. He would be left with no money and would have proven to himself that he should have been appointed in January '09.  He could claim victory over history.

The Dems would be left with one excellent Democratic non-candidate with a boatload of money and the ability to make more. These funds are not transferable between candidates. We would also have a Democratic candidate who has alienated 40% of the Dems in this state (through negativity, snark, entitlement, etc.), many of whom were the fresh energy that reached out to independent voters in the Obama campaign and brought them into the fold. Every day this primary goes on, there are missed opportunities for team-building. A divided party is a losing party. Dick Wadhams couldn't have planned this better.  

Give up the ego trip, Andrew. It's not your race.

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by: peacemonger @ Thu Apr 22, 2010 at 14:43:47 PM UTC

It's OK, when Romanoff wins

your guy can always just give that "boatload" of money right back to the corporate lobbyists from whence it came. Problem solved.

Then maybe those corporations can give that "boatload" back to us the taxpayers by repaying us the bailouts they received from our public treasury.

We the People are saying that we don't want a candidate who has to depend on a "boatload" of corporate cash to get elected.  We want a candidate who wins through a groundswell of legitimate grassroots support and will be beholden to no one but us.  

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by: Mucius Scaevola @ Thu Apr 22, 2010 at 16:09:28 PM UTC

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Or perhaps

out of his "boatload" of corporate campaign cash, Mr. Bennet could pay back the Denver Public Schools the millions of dollars in public money that got gambled away on interest rate swaps at his direction.  

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by: Mucius Scaevola @ Thu Apr 22, 2010 at 22:01:34 PM UTC

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We would also have

A "non-candidate,"

who has alienated 40% of the Dems in this state (through negativity, snark, entitlement, etc.)

Senator Buck will give me a great sense of "Buyers Remorse" in the way that it would feel like my Senator was screwing me over.  

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by: thegreatandpowerfuloz @ Thu Apr 22, 2010 at 20:54:40 PM UTC

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That's overly generous.

The never-elected senator and his surrogates have actually

alienated 60% of the Dems in this state (through negativity, snark, entitlement, etc.)

... not to mention poor job performance in Washington.

Frankly, the best thing for the party and for the people of Colorado would be if the never-elected senator were to graciously bow out and allow the people to elect their own senator without any more of this needless acrimony. Just because a bad decision was made in appointing a senator to the seat, doesn't mean we have to be saddled with that mistake forever. This is what elections are for.

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by: Mucius Scaevola @ Thu Apr 22, 2010 at 22:14:24 PM UTC

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My mistake

Peter, you are completely right.  

Senator Buck will give me a great sense of "Buyers Remorse" in the way that it would feel like my Senator was screwing me over.  

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by: thegreatandpowerfuloz @ Thu Apr 22, 2010 at 22:49:44 PM UTC

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Okay, I give credit to Andrew when credit is due.

If you don't give any to Michael Bennet when it is due, you appear disengenuous, IMHO.  Michael has done an amazing job in Washington. You may not like one or two votes, but overall, he has voted as a progressive 90+% of the time.  He has impressed lots of other Senators in his short time in office, as well, not to mention the President.

Michael has never been negative, snarky or acted entitled to the job. Check your gut- you know that is not true. He may have pissed off 60% of the party hacks in CO just by virtue of getting the job, but they (we) account for only 2-3% of the Dems in the state.  

I admire your loyalty to Andrew, really I do. If he didn't jump into the wrong race at the wrong time, he'd still have mine, as well.

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by: peacemonger @ Sat Apr 24, 2010 at 07:43:50 AM UTC

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