Denver Post Goes Silent on Senate Candidate Job Offer Scandal (Not the Sestak Scandal)

NewsBusters ^ | May 27, 2010 | P.J. Gladnick

[PJ-Comix]

A Democrat candidate running against a Senate incumbent is offered a job by the White House as an incentive to drop out of the primary race. Sounds like the Joe Sestak scandal in which he alleged that someone in the White House offered him a job in order to drop out of the race against the incumbent senator from Pennsylvania, Arlen Specter. Right? Well, yes. However, this also perfectly describes another similar scandal in which it is alleged that the White House offered a job to Andrew Romanoff (photo) in order to drop out of the primary race for the senate from Colorado against incumbent Michael Bennet. And the amazing thing about this scandal is that the newspaper that broke it has since remained completely silent on any further reporting.

First the scandal details as reported by Michael Riley for the Denver Post in this September 27, 2009 article:

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.

Jim Messina, President Barack Obama's deputy chief of staff and a storied fixer in the White House political shop, suggested a place for Romanoff might be found in the administration and offered specific suggestions, according to several sources who described the communication to The Denver Post.

Romanoff turned down the overture, which included mention of a job at USAID, the foreign aid agency, sources said.

[PJ-Comix]

Want to get a good paying easy job? Just run against a Democrat incumbent in the Senate and then take the cushy job Rahm Emanuel will be offering you. These types of job offers sound like Rahm Emanuel SOP.

[Ann Archy]

Andrew Romanoff SIAD he was offered a job not to run!! THAT is TAMPERING with an election....FELONY!

[Genoa]

OK, now there's a pattern. I want a special prosecutor.

[bt579]

Ill run against Biden.

[PhilosopherStone1000]

Heck, I’ve already decided that I’m not paying my taxes until Dumb0 offers me a cabinet position...

[Mrs.Z]

***I’ll run against Biden.***

That’s going to be tough.

You will need to have an IQ over 50, be able to speak without making an a%% of yourself, and have real hair.

;^)

[colorado tanker]

Romanoff thumped Bennet at the state Democrat convention and will get top billing on the primary ballot. Obama could be losing yet another of his candidates.

[butterdezillion]

But if you aren’t willing to report the bribe to authorities then Obama will take you down with him, since you are guilty of misprision of felony if he’s guilty of felony. That’s the game they play.

The real issue is whether anybody has the balls to actually report the criminal Obama mafia. That’s how the mafia always operates.

We already have about a half-dozen impeachable felonies that Obama is almost certainly guilty of. The problem is getting people who could testify, to testify. And the people who could/should investigate and enforce the law, to investigate and enforce the law.

We have good laws. We have positions set up for enforcement. We just don’t have anybody willing to do the jobs they’ve been given. We have a crisis of the rule of law - with government, media, and law enforcement all complicit.

http://www.butterdezillion.wordpress.com

[bgill]

You’re still paying taxes? I thought Hussein promised to buy us all ponies and pay our taxes.

[Colvin]

No Dude, he promised to pay our mortgage and give us all the gas we could eat!