CO-SEN Michael Bennet - what Democrats need to know

The Primary Is Over

We need to begin reaching across the aisle to one another.  Dan Slater, a Romanoff supporter and CDP First Vice Chair wrote:

Many of you out there remember what it was like to be a Democrat in Colorado before the turn of the century. We occasionally won a few elections. It wasn't uncommon to have a Democratic Governor, or even a Democratic U.S. Senator. But for the most part, Colorado was a "red state". We voted for a Democrat for President once since the 1960s - and that was primarily because Ross Perot drained enough votes to give Bill Clinton a Colorado plurality in 1992.

Being a minority party, we had our primaries, but they were (for the most part) pretty tame. Anybody can point out some exceptions to that rule, but the mentality of being a minority party is simply a different mentality.
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ver to the Republicans; they have yet to figure out that they're the minority party. They're bickering over high heels and bull dung like they're still the majority party in Colorado. At the end of the day - at the end of this day, in fact - we'll have a choice between either Romanoff or Bennet and one of the Republican jokers.

I like that match-up. Because like I said when I endorsed Andrew Romanoff, we have a pretty good choice on our side of this race - you can't go wrong with either guy.

So if your guy wins tonight, don't do a whole lot of gloating. Instead, work to unify our party and welcome supporters of the other guy to your candidate. And if your guy loses tonight, shed a tear. But then get out and work your ass off for the other guy.

Because Colorado - and America - simply can't afford six years of Jane Norton OR Ken Buck.

I agree.

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by: saindenver @ Tue Aug 10, 2010 at 19:45:59 PM UTC

All in It Together

There is a Bennet sign in front of my house in Northeast Denver.  But, if the senator does not win tonight, tomorrow I will replace it with a Romanoff sign.  

We all know what it is like when Republicans are in control and we should work to make sure that doesn't happen.  What we have had this past year is a spirited debate over who our candidate should be.  When the sun goes down tonight, we will have our answer.  

Tomorrow morning, let's remember we are Democrats, we offer a better path forward, and we will all vote for our candidate -- whomever that may be.

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by: ryadare @ Tue Aug 10, 2010 at 20:01:38 PM UTC

Same but different

I wasn't around when Republicans were in control, I'm new to this.  This was my first Caucus/County Convention and first Primary.  

I haven't been encouraged with what I have witnessed the past two or three months.

But if my guy loses tonight I will be online Wednesday morning to get a sign, get on the email list and drop a few dollars in the hat.

The thought of a Buck or Norton representing our state makes me a little ill.

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by: jeffcodemo @ Tue Aug 10, 2010 at 22:46:02 PM UTC

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It Was Not a Pretty Sight

Andrew Romanoff speaks about his minority years in the legislature when the Republicans worried about keeping gay people from representation and forgot about kids in schools which were falling down.

I recall

1. state legislatures in special sessions at a cost of about $300,000 per session because no one worried about a state budget until May.  
   
2. an attempt by the state legislature to redistrict a second time before the 2004 election. That little event cost the state no small amount in legal fees when it was dismissed by the State Supreme Court.
   
3. a US Senator talking more about abortion and denying global warming when the mountains were burning.
   
4. A Senator supporting a Congressmen from Jeffco & Arapaho and a Congresswoman from Weld flying back to Washington to vote on the private family matter of one Terri Schivo
   
5. A US Senator supporting expansion of Ft Carson through the condemnation process of family ranchers who had lived and worked on their land for generations
   
6. there's lots more.  Put your issue here_____
   

Let's win in November

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by: saindenver @ Tue Aug 10, 2010 at 23:59:18 PM UTC

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