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Colorado Senate candidate Andrew Romanoff admitted ... that the e-mail ... sent to him by White House Deputy Chief of Staff Jim Messina was in fact sent from a White House account. Not the Democratic National Committee or a personal account. The address is important as those probing the incident of "jobs for favors" surrounding the candidacy of Romanoff and Pennsylvania Congressman Joe Sestak will seek to determine if laws were violated -- laws that include the illegal use of the federal government in offering the jobs. That use would include government e-mail accounts. Like the one Messina used to...

(CNSNews.com) – The White House last fall denied that any job offer was made to Colorado Democratic Senate candidate Andrew Romanoff after reports first surfaced in the media. Now, the White House concedes that overtures were made to Romanoff about a job – but not an actual offer -- “to avoid a costly battle” with incumbent Democratic Senator Michael Bennet, who has the backing of President Barack Obama. On Sept. 27, 2009, The Denver Post reported that Jim Messina, Obama’s deputy chief of staff, had contacted the candidate and “suggested a place for Romanoff might be found in the administration...

Romanoff says job prospects didn't influence himThursday, June 3, 2010 09:34 PDT DENVER (AP) - Andrew Romanoff insists that the prospect of a White House job played no role in his decision to challenge an incumbent Democratic senator. Romanoff told reporters Thursday that the fact that a White House staffer told him about three possible jobs a few weeks before he mounted his Senate campaign didn't sway him. But Romanoff didn't answer questions about whether he thinks the White House intended to keep him out of the race by offering him work. He kept mum about the 2009 job discussions...

Romanoff Cracks: Secret White House Jobsgate E-Mail Revealed By Jeffrey Lord on 6.3.10 And…bang! Can you say James McCord? In a revelation that will send shock waves through the American political landscape, the Denver Post last night revealed that Colorado Senate candidate Andrew Romanoff has now reluctantly admitted he discussed "three possible jobs with the deputy chief of staff of the Obama administration -- all contingent upon a decision by Romanoff not to challenge U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet." The White House Deputy Chief of Staff is Jim Messina, a Denver-born Obama aide who served as the chief of staff of...

Andrew Romanoff, the Democratic Senate candidate in Colorado who was offered key administration jobs by the White House to convince him not to run, is known for his successful record in the Colorado legislature, where he rose to be speaker of the House. But his qualifications – and the type of experience on his resume – are slim in comparison to some of the previous people who have held those same positions. For instance, Romanoff does not have any significant managerial experience, but each of the three slots the White House dangled in front of him would have involved leading...

Here is video of White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs telling the Press that President Obama knew nothing about White House offers of three possible jobs to Democrat U.S. Senate Candidate Andrew Romanoff to get him to drop his primary challenge to incumbent Democrat Sen. Michael Bennet. Gibbs said those kinds of things are done all the time to prevent primary challenges. When asked if he believes the White House has been “transparent” on the Sestak and Romanoff Job Offers, Gibbs actually said with a straight face, he believes they have.

Corruption: A presidency that promised to take the high road on ethics has veered off into scandal after scandal — Sestak, Romanoff, Blagojevich. Whatever happened to changing the ways of Washington? 'The American people elected a president who promised to change the status quo and business-as-usual practices of Washington," House Oversight and Government Reform Committee ranking Republican Darrell Issa of California and House Judiciary Committee ranking Republican Lamar Smith of Texas wrote this week in a letter to White House counsel Robert Bauer. "Has this White House become a part of the establishment they once opposed?" Bauer last week issued...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The White House scrambled Thursday to explain new revelations of political dealmaking, defending attempts to steer state primary races but saying the president was unaware an aide had urged a Colorado Democrat to seek a federal job rather than run. With Republicans denouncing "Chicago-style politics" and accusing President Barack Obama of breaking his clean-politics promises, White House aides mustered a multi-pronged response.

The top Republican on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee is pressing the administration to disclose the White House political office’s role in coordinating taxpayer-funded travel by government officials on behalf of Democratic candidates.  Opening a new front in his push to investigate the Obama administration, Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) sent a letter Thursday to 21 Cabinet secretaries and department heads seeking details on their political and official travel since February 2009, and whether the Office of Political Affairs coordinated those trips.  The inquiry is a new twist on a fight that congressional Democrats first waged against former President...

After the revelations about White House bribes/job discussions with Joe Sestak in Pennsylvania and Andrew Romanoff in Colorado, the NRSC smells blood: These revelations in Colorado and Pennsylvania raise valid questions as to whether or not Arkansas Democrat Senate hopeful and insurgent liberal challenger Lt. Governor Bill Halter (D-AR) was offered a similar opportunity in an effort to avoid a nasty primary battle against U.S. Senator Blanche Lincoln (D-AR).

They toppled Hillary Clinton, crushed John McCain and managed to get the first black man elected president of the United States. But now a series of recent missteps just keeps getting worse for Barack Obama's political operation, already under fire from inside the party for losing its golden touch. The second-guessing of the White House political shop — which is coming in part from top House Democrats — was sparked anew late Wednesday by news that the White House tried and failed to coax another Democratic Senate candidate out of making his race by dangling administration jobs in front of...

White House press secretary Robert Gibbs acknowledged Thursday morning that White House deputy chief of staff Jim Messina talked last September with Andrew Romanoff, the former speaker of the Colorado House of Representatives, about possible administration jobs he might be qualified for if he didn’t challenge Sen. Michael Bennet, D-Colo., in the Democratic primary. Last night, Romanoff issued a statement stating that Messina had floated the possibility of three jobs -- including two at the US Agency for International Development -- if he didn’t run for Senate. Romanoff turned Messina down and is challenging Bennet, whom President Obama endorsed. The...

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...

Colorado senate candidate Andrew Romanoff has confirmed that the White House offered him not one, not two, but three separate jobs in government to drop out of the primary race against the incumbent Michael Bennett. Those bribery counts are starting to add up. Here's Politico: In a statement released at 6:25 a.m., Gibbs said Messina did reach out to Romanoff to see if it would be possible to keep him out of a primary challenge to Bennet, who had the White House's backing. "Andrew Romanoff applied for a position at USAID during the Presidential transition," Gibbs said. "He filed...

WASHINGTON – The White House on Thursday denied accusations of back-room dealmaking after a Colorado Democrat said he had been encouraged by one of President Barack Obama's top advisers to apply for an international development job instead of challenging the candidate whom the president favored in a Senate race. "There was no offer of a job," White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said in a statement issued Thursday morning. Romanoff on Wednesday night released a copy of an e-mail in which White House deputy chief of staff Jim Messina described three federal international development jobs that might be available to...

Romanoff defeated Bennet, 60 percent to 40 percent, in a tally of votes from more than 3,500 delegates. Under Colorado law, both candidates qualified for the primary ballot because they received more than 30 percent support. Romanoff's convention victory was widely anticipated after he prevailed in first-round precinct caucuses in March, though his campaign claimed the results show it has "Romentum." "Today the voters of Colorado stood up to the powerbrokers in Washington and Wall Street and made their voices heard," Romanoff campaign manager Bill Romjue wrote in an e-mail to supporters that also asked for campaign funds to meet...

The White House faced fresh questions over back-room dealmaking after a Colorado Democrat acknowledged he had been encouraged by one of President Barack Obama's top advisers to apply for an international development job instead of challenging the candidate whom the president favored in a Senate race. The revelation again called into question repeated promises by Obama to run an open government that was above private political horse-trading. In appealing to voters this election year, Republicans charge that Obama's promise to change the ways of Washington has given way to the craven politics he campaigned against. Former Colorado House Speaker Andrew...

Colorado U.S. Senate candidate Andrew Romanoff confirmed Wednesday that the White House spoke to him about potentially taking a job in President Barack Obama's administration if he wouldn't challenge incumbent Democratic Sen. Michael Bennet. Romanoff said in a statement that Obama's deputy chief of staff, Jim Messina, called him shortly after his plans to run for Senate became public in September. Romanoff says Messina never made any guarantees, and no job offer was ever made. Romanoff said the three jobs that were mentioned were deputy assistant administrator for Latin America and the Caribbean, director of Democracy and Governance, and director...

Republicans are jumping on an Associated Press report that "administration officials dangled the possibility of a job for former Colorado House Speaker Andrew Romanoff last year in hopes he would forgo a challenge to Democratic Sen. Michael Bennet" as the latest piece of evidence that the Obama administration has engaged in unseemly and possible illegal manipulation of the political process. The AP report, which is sourced to unnamed administration officials, comes less than a week after the White House, under pressure from Republicans and the press corps, detailed how it enlisted former President Bill Clinton to talk to Rep. Joe...

Senate Candidate Says White House Discussed 3 Jobs June 3, 2010 WASHINGTON (AP) -- One of President Barack Obama's top advisers suggested to a Colorado Democrat that he forgo a primary challenge to Sen. Michael Bennet and instead apply for one of three international development jobs. The disclosure came just days after the White House admitted orchestrating a job offer in the Pennsylvania Senate race with the similar goal of avoiding a messy or divisive Democratic primary. The back-room deals -- former President Bill Clinton led the Pennsylvania effort and White House deputy chief of staff Jim Messina worked with...