Tag: Andrew Romanoff

With two close primary races for the U.S. Senate, some Colorado voters will go to the polls today or drop off last-minute mail-in ballots to determine who will battle it out in November. The vast majority of votes in what could be a record for a primarily mail-in election are already in. And the candidates for both parties would have voters believe that what’s at stake is the soul of the state – grassroots, western self-determination versus entrenched, inside-the-Beltway career political cronyism.

Former President Bill Clinton recorded a message in support of former Colorado State House Speaker Andrews Romanoff that is being sent out by robocall today to Democratic voters across the state.

"When you get the first draft pick, you go after the best athlete," Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper recently said of his choice of Colorado State University-Pueblo President Joe Garcia as his running mate in the race for the governor's office in November.

The New York Times waded into the Colorado Democratic U.S. Senate primary Thursday with a lengthy investigative piece detailing a flashy Denver Public Schools interest-swap refinance deal brokered in part by U.S. Senator Michael Bennet as superintendent. The Times story of a stacked transaction that produced windfall profits for the banks but catastrophe for the schools has given new life to questions raised by Bennet detractors about his relationship to big money. The Bennet campaign says the Times simply got the story wrong.

A newly-organized 527 group with dubious origins is running factually inaccurate radio ads against Sen. Michael Bennet (D). The group, called New Leadership For Colorado,...

On a town-hall style press conference call Tuesday night, President Barack Obama joined Sen. Michael Bennet to present his reasons Democratic voters should choose the incumbent Democratic senator as their candidate over former state Speaker of the House Andrew Romanoff in Tuesday's primary election.

Sen. Michael Bennet's campaign jumped on a story by Politico that had Romanoff Campaign Manager Bill Romjue stating that they had made no decision yet on whether to take Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee funds that are tainted with Political Action Committee dollars, and then reversed that decision a day later saying that in fact they would accept those donations. Romanoff's campaign said a communication error had occured.

Former Colorado House Speaker Andrew Romanoff has pulled even with Sen. Michael Bennet (D) for the first time, according to a Denver Post/9 News...

Politics watchers around the country are eyeing the roller coaster Colorado U.S. Senate races. Talking Points Memo today posted interactive graphs illustrating the movement...

Democratic camps collided over the weekend when supporters of U.S. Senate candidates Andrew Romanoff and incumbent Michael Bennet traded chants and jibes as Bennet challenged a Romanoff attack ad that condemns Bennet for looting a movie chain and costing thousands of jobs. Bennet said the ad casts aspersions; Romanoff's campaign said Bennet was a hypocrite.