Posted on 06/02/2010 7:14:18 PM PDT by Yossarian
Andrew Romanoff, the former speaker of the Colorado house of representatives, issued a statement Wednesday evening claiming that the White House raised the possibility that he might be offered an administration job if he opted to not challenge incumbent Sen. Michael Bennet, D-Colo.
Romanoff also released what he said was an e-mail from White House deputy chief of staff Jim Messina outlining three possible jobs -- deputy assistant administrator for Latin America and Caribbean for the U.S. Agency for International Development; director of the Office of Democracy and Governance at USAID; and director of the U.S. Trade and Development Agency – he could have if he didn’t run.
Romanoff did not accept any of the offers, and currently is challenging Bennet, who has the endorsement of President Obama.
The White House did not comment. The statement comes as the White House attempts to distance itself from the controversy stemming from attempts – also unsuccessful – to convince Rep. Joe Sestak, D-Pa., to not challenge Sen. Arlen Specter, D-Pa., in the Pennsylvania primary. Sestak ultimately defeated Specter.
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Thank you for posting again. It does not matter how many times it is Posted, as many people don’t sit here all day and read. <P.
This is the first I’ve seen this.
Just tired of reading the same four ‘stories’ every day on FR.
And, paying for it.
That’s all.
Biden, like Hillary!, currently look better because they have the freedom right now to not carry the water for all the Democrat's leftist causes.
However, make either of them the top dog, and I'm sure we'll soon find out that the Democrat's troubles go far past the current occupant in the White House and rather to their general philosophy. (Ah, when unchecked by a GOP legislature, ala Bubba '94-'00, that is.)
O/T, but every time I see this at the top of the Breaking News bar, I get an inexplicable craving for noodles made with cheddar cheese and sour cream with a quick dash of Worcestershire Sauce....
Pretty smart politics. Now, Dems can't accuse him of disclosing this to discredit Bennet as being part of corrupt Washington, noooooo, the biggest paper in the state made him do it.
There is a cancer on the presidency.
This goes all the way to the top.
The only questions that now remain are what did the President know, and when did he know it?
Don’t listen to them. This story is not the same source as the other.
And he makes me genuinely laugh. And his wife knows how to dress nice.
When was Hillary offered the SOS job?
Huh? I thought this was the first post with the email from the White House.
Yes. I wondered that before when Sestak hit the news (even though he is a sitting member in the house). And apparently it is illegal to offer gov’t jobs to people in order to influence an election.
Basically this is a law because they don’t want the party in power using gov’t jobs to allow the party to run people unopposed in the primary. So that way they won’t spend money in the primary and create an internal feud within the party...instead all the money goes to fund their “annoited” pick. It’s actually a very good law to have on the books—I’m surprised it exists.
The rats must have passed it when the white house was in control by Republicans and they wanted to not allow them to use the gov’t jobs in the same way they have always done. But now they forget about that law when they are back in power.
I think he’s doing it to get the White House to stop backing Bennet. The only way he keeps his mouth shut or changes his story is to win the primary. He thinks the WH is vulnerable due to Sestak and is capitalizing on it.
Good for us, but it doesn’t make him a good guy.
Interesting question. That nominating convention was a bit odd . . .
Heh. And we already have a leading candidate for "Deep Throat":
Here comes the race card.
I can hear them now...in Obama's culture it's not wrong to do this type of thing. Just because you're white (and not from Chicago) you can't understand.
“May be the worst political scandal since Watergate.”
Watergate was nothing compared to what this corrupt Obama administration has done.
Yes, in the GM and Chrysler take-overs alone, impeachable offenses were committed.
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