Posted on 06/12/2010 7:26:45 AM PDT by george76
Sen. Michael Bennet (D-Colo.) said Thursday he was aware the White House had urged Andrew Romanoff not to challenge him in a primary.
Bennet told The Hill he knew beforehand that White House Deputy Chief of Staff Jim Messina had reached out to Romanoff in hopes of avoiding a primary challenge to the incumbent Bennet.
“Yeah, I was aware,” Bennet said. “Right.”
Romanoff, a former state House speaker, attracted headlines recently by stating he was contacted by Messina last September with various job offers...
The White House also contacted Pennsylvania Rep. Joe Sestak (D) in hopes of avoiding a primary challenge to incumbent Sen. Arlen Specter (D-Pa.).
The White House played a major role in clearing the primary field for Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) this cycle
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I love that term, “reached out”. Typically liberal semantics.
O: “how we gonna get this Sestak/Romanoff thing off the front pages?”
R: “we got a heaven sent crisis - let's not waste it. Don't do anything to keep that oil from destroying the coast line from the Gulf, around Florida, up the east coast - “
O:” Right. Alinksi rules: Oh, and it's Bush's fault”
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