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In late September, The Denver Post reported that White House deputy chief of staff Jim Messina had contacted Romanoff a month earlier to ask if he was interested in a post — perhaps at the U.S. Agency for International Development — in an effort to avert a potentially costly and divisive primary war between Romanoff and Bennet.
For Democrats, the immediate concern about Romanoff was clear: A popular, well-known political figure in the state holding sway among the party’s grass-roots activists, Romanoff threatened to wage a competitive fight against Bennet, a former Denver public schools chief who cuts a moderate and establishment image.
Romanoff was one of the other applicants when Gov. Bill Ritter chose Bennet in January to fill the term of Sen. Ken Salazar, who had been tapped to be Interior secretary.