As we all now know, a second alleged job 'dangle' was made by the White House to a potential Senate Primary candidate - this time it was Andrew Romanoff to prevent his primary challenge to Appointed Senator Michael Bennet.
Republicans like Darrel Issa (who it now seems is less than honest about his military record) are trying to gin up an attack on the President over this non job offer. Is there something there? I doubt it. But the fact that the White House has been meddling in primaries by the clearing the field for Kirsten Gillibrand and by endorsing Conservative Dems like Arlen Specter, Blance Lincoln, and now Michael Bennet for Senate races is both historically unwise and potentially dangerous to Obama.
If you are like me, you can see that there is a distinct difference between the Obama organization on the campaign, and the Obama White House.
I smell a rat, and he is Rahm Emmanuel. If Obama is as smart as I know he is, he will learn from FDR's mistake and change course in regard to Rahm.
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So yes, my job is totally taking advantage of me, and you know what? I LOVE IT.
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(Rand Paul is taking $$ from white supremacists? What??? - promoted by Fong)
This must be seen across America.
Stormfront.org, which was founded to support David Duke for senate by another KKK Grand Dragon, Don Black, has been promoting and contributing to Rand Paul's moneybombs. Palling around with WhiteSupremacists much?
That's a tweet from Don Black, head of the white supremacist group Stormfront. Wow.
~snip~
So, Trey Grayson should reject donations from Republicans who voted for the bailout........but it's okay for Rand Paul to accept donations from Stormfront?
Given that our Democratic State Convention is happening this week and that our race for the nomination for US Senator is hotly contested by our former Democratic long time Colorado House Speaker Andrew Romanoff and the appointed Senator Michael Bennet,
You all should read this diary by Wade Norris
He appears to have proof that someone, at Huffington Post perhaps, deleted Michael Bennet's name from a list of Senators who Voted Against Breaking Up the Mega Banks, on the same day that Bennet sent our a major fund raising letter on teh topic of reforming Washington DC.
A week and half ago, the Senate took up the Bank reform act called the Kaufman-Brown SAFE amendment which would have broken up the monopoly of the largest banks.
MSNBC commentator Dylan Ratigan called out the Senators who voted against this bill and berated them as belonging to the 'Bankster' Party.
He listed this group of Senators in an article on Huffington Post.
A few days later, one of the Senators who were on the Bankster party list was somehow mysteriously removed from Ratigan's Huffington Post story.
What's interesting is that this Senator is involved in a heated Primary, and the very same day as his 'Nay' vote, that very Senator emailed his plan to 'reform' Washington.
The real question here is - Does Dylan Ratigan know that his article was changed or did a Huffington post editor change it without his permission?
And what did the Senator whose name was removed know and what was his involvement?
This week on Huffington Post's Denver page, Michael Bennet posted an article - Close the Revolving Door, which talks about his efforts to reform the Lobbyist ways of Washington.
It would seem the readers from Colorado did not take comfort in the Senator's words in light of his recent votes.
I have a friendly tip for Senator Bennet's staff, next time your Candidate writes an article, remember to turn off the "Comments" section of his article - which Huffington Post allows diarists to do.
The resulting comments in response to Bennet's post can only be summed up as 'devastating' for a candidate trailing his Republican opponents and facing a grassroots backed primary challenge from Andrew Romanoff.
It's simple really, to hold on to a Senate seat, don't start out a re-election campaign without the support of base democratic voters.
But here in Colorado, Senator Michael Bennet is starting out his re-election bid with that strategy.
In addition to that some lifelong Democrats are saying
"they will vote Republican before they will vote for Michael Bennet"
Denver Teachers told me that was the sentiment among Denver Public School teachers about incumbent Democratic Senator Michael Bennet. (See video)
That statement should give any democrat reason for pause, considering the Democrats need to hold on to every vulnerable Senate seat in what looks to be an anti-incumbent election year - and 'Colorado is in the Toss up category' - with Republicans seeking to take back the Senate.
Senator Bennet was appointed Superintendent of Denver Public Schools, and a few years later was appointed to the Senate to replace Senator Salazar.
However, the Teachers who worked under Michael Bennet's tenure as the Denver Public Schools Superintendent have some choice words about his re-election efforts to the Senate.
(yikes!)
Challenger Andrew Romanoff won more major caucus victories in Colorado's U.S. Senate race Saturday, taking large margins over incumbent Michael Bennet in urban county assemblies.
Romanoff, former speaker of thhttp://www.squarestate.net/newDiary.doe state House of Representatives, won in Arapahoe, Douglas, Boulder, El Paso and Pueblo counties, among others, in early reports from the largest gatherings. Many of Colorado's most populous counties met Saturday to elect delegates to the state Democratic convention in May.
(so much for the Spin that Romanoff's only stronghold was in Denver)
One point of note - Boulder and El Paso Assemblies had formerly been for Bennet, but today switched to Romanoff.
On second reading the Senate passed the long bill today and Republicans should be so jolly pleased with themselves after the cuts that make us 48th in the nation in spending per person. But they won't be, I'm sure.
Alaska spends the most at $17,000 per person. West Virgnia, Wyoming, and Delaware, the recent winner of Race to the Top grant, place second, third and fourth, respectively. Coming in 30th, Nebraska is about average at just under $4,773. The only states that spend less than Colorado are Nevada and Texas. Here's a .pdf with more info
From a press release from the Colorado Senate is a list of some of the cuts:
originally titled
'no excuse for not introducing a Public Option amendment now'
but since the bill passed the house again, it is now law, so on to the next issue.
Who will introduce a stand alone Public Option?
The purpose of the Bennet Letter
http://whipcongress.com/letter...
Dear Leader Reid:
We respectfully ask that you bring for a vote before the full Senate a public health insurance option under budget reconciliation rules. Respectfully,
Michael Bennet (D-CO), U.S. Senator
Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), U.S. Senator
Jeff Merkley (D-OR), U.S. Senator
Sherrod Brown (D-OH), U.S. Senator
I hope one of these 4 senators will lead the charge and stay with the spirit of the letter they crafted.
The Colorado 2010 caucus was above average attendance last night. In 2008 over 92,000 people attended compared to 2006 with just over 8,000. As of press time, there is close to 22,000 or 2.7 times the 2006 levels.
The constellation of GOP numbers [.pdf] makes things interesting. Cleve Tidwell is out (not so interesting, but maybe now we can have some closure). Tea Partyboy Ken Buck and "old guard Jane" Norton are in a dead heat with over a third of the vote each. Former State Senator Tom Wiens doesn't have to petition onto the ballot with 16%.
Second, there is a resolution Democrats Rep. Andy Kerr, Senator John Morse, and Speaker of the House Terrance Carroll are encouraging people to propose at their caucuses.
From the video
We therefore call on the Colorado General Assembly to restore the legal rights to Colorado's largest consumer group: homeowners
