Denver Post Finally Gets Around to Mentioning Romanoff Job Offer Allegation Again

NewsBusters ^ | May 28, 2010 | P.J. Gladnick

[PJ-Comix]

Well hallelujah!

After 8 months of being in a silent lockdown mode on the subject of whether the White House offered the Democrat Senate candidate from Colorado, Andrew Romanoff (photo), a job if he would remove himself from the primary race, the Denver Post has finally gotten around to reporting on it again following their initial September story. By strange "coincidence" the Post's sudden willingness to once again broach this subject happened just hours after their bizarre silence on this topic was pointed out by various blogs on the web including the NewsBusters blog of your humble correspondent yesterday.

The first Denver Post mention in 8 months of this allegation comes from the blog of staff writer Michael Booth who sounds irritated with Republicans for even focusing on this situation:

Republicans trying hard to make Joe Sestak’s job-trading allegations stick are dragging Colorado Senate challenger Andrew Romanoff into the argument.

Much of their ammunition comes straight from a Denver Post article last September by Washington correspondent Michael Riley. The Post article cited top Democratic sources saying the Obama administration “suggested a place for Romanoff might be found” in the executive branch. The implication was that the job would be available if Romanoff dropped any challenge to appointed Sen. Michael Bennet for the Colorado Democratic primary.

[PJ-Comix]

Denver Post is very reluctantly dragged back into reporting on a story it broke last September. I guess the mockery from the blogosphere was just too much.

[dynachrome]

Local radio good guy, Peter Boyles. has been all over it!

http://www.khow.com/pages/boyles.html

Lies from the Post:
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Response from the Denver Post
Friday 05-28-2010 5:07am MT
Response from the Denver Post

Thanks for your email this morning. We have chronicled — deeply and
exclusively, I should say — the alleged efforts of the Obama and Ritter
administrations to dissuade Andrew Romanoff from a primary. I dare say
that without our reporting, no one would know about them.
In the case of the Obama administration, they deny that any such offer
was made and, while we continue to work on the story, to date we have
been unable to unearth any document that could confirm what a number of
sources described for us back in September, 2009. So it remains the word
of our sources against the official denial of the Obama administration.

As for Mr. Sestak, we have to keep our staff resources focused on our
own Congressional delegation and Colorado politics, but we can certainly
look for a wire story on whether he also received a job offer and
publish that.

Chuck Murphy
Public Affairs Editor
The Denver Post”

[GeronL]

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[XHogPilot]

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[dynachrome]

Denver Pest paper finally mentions the Romanoff story.

[whence911]

Let the house hearings begin.

[TigersEye]

The Post article cited top Democratic sources saying the Obama administration “suggested a place for Romanoff might be found” in the executive branch. The implication was that the job would be available if Romanoff dropped any challenge to appointed Sen. Michael Bennet for the Colorado Democratic primary.

There is the violation of law right there.

D.C. job alleged as attempt to deter Romanoff (0bama Regime offers job to drop out of Sen. race in CO Sep. 27, '09)

Sestak-gate: White House Offered Romanoff Job, Too (A Impeachable Firestorm is Brewing) (May 26, '10)

White House Accused of Federal Crime in Specter, Bennet Races

For the second time in five months, the Obama White House is being accused -- by Democrats -- of offering high ranking government jobs in return for political favors. What no one is reporting is that this is a violation of federal law that can lead to prison time, a fine or both, according to Title 18, Chapter 11, Section 211 of the United States Code.

The jobs in question? Secretary of the Navy and a position within the U.S. Agency for International Development.

The favor requested in return? Withdrawal from Senate challenges to two sitting United States Senators, both Democrats supported by President Obama. The Senators are Arlen Specter in Pennsylvania and Michael Bennet in Colorado.

Did Obama Offer Sestak A Bribe?

Michele Bachmann's Comments On Larry King Live Send Denver Columnist Into Near-Seizure
(Obama’s attempt to persuade Representative Jim Matheson to change his vote on Obama-care)

[beaversmom]

Didn’t get to hear Peter Boyles this morning, but he was hitting this good yesterday—plus the illegals in Aurora story :)

Thanks for the ping DC.

[beaversmom]

Didn’t get to hear Peter Boyles this morning, but he was hitting this good yesterday—plus the illegals in Aurora story :)

Thanks for the ping DC.

[dynachrome]

The illegals blew town. Wonder if the landlord is in on it.

[SunkenCiv]

After 8 months of being in a silent lockdown mode on the subject of whether the White House offered the Democrat Senate candidate from Colorado, Andrew Romanoff), a job if he would remove himself from the primary race, the Denver Post has finally gotten around to reporting on it again following their initial September story. By strange "coincidence" the Post's sudden willingness to once again broach this subject happened just hours after their bizarre silence on this topic was pointed out by various blogs on the web including the NewsBusters blog of your humble correspondent yesterday.

Thanks PJ-Comix.

• Top Democrat [Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin] wants answers from Sestak
• Congressman: White House Job Offer to Sestak May Be an 'Impeachable' Offense
• Obama on Sestak Job Scandal: 'Nothing Improper Took Place'; W.H. Report Coming 'Soon'
• Clinton: 'The rich are not paying their fair share'
• Sestak says White House has contacted his brother over job-offer allegation
• EXCLUSIVE: White House asked Clinton to talk to Sestak about Senate run
• Sestak: Brother Collaborating With White House
• Statement from Joe Sestak on White House Counsel's Report
• White House asked Bill Clinton to talk to Joe Sestak about Senate run
• GOP Asks FBI to Investigate 'Collusion,' Obstruction of Justice in Sestak Case
• MUST SEE VIDEO: Clinton Refuses To Comment On Sestak Offer
• The Joe Sestak "Question" -- Anatomy Of An Interview That Spread Like Wildfire

[AuH2ORepublican]

If Obama offered an Executive Branch position for which Romanoff was uniquely qualified, wouldn’t it be clear that he offered to make Romanoff . . .

. . . a Czar?

: )

[GOPsterinMA]

Very good!

[ncfool]

The offer to Sestak was just an opening offer and not the final job!

Obama and Rahmbo are guilty and an investigation needs to move forward on this item. We need an independant prosocutor to find out the truth.

Look what happend to Blago and what took place in CO.

I guess that the White House White wash attorney will clean this up.

[spycatcher]

Look what happend to Blago and what took place in CO. This is the elephant in the White House living room. The Sestak scandal could be related to the Blago seat scandal. Patrick Fitzgerald should take on the independent investigation.

[Oceander]

[PJ-Comix]

Mark Finkelstein that Sestak still has NOT stated that he wasn't offered the Secretary of Navy job. Here is the question I would like a reporter to ask:

"Mr. Sestak, can you now tell us if anyone ever offered you the Secretary of Navy position?"

[beaversmom]

Yeah, that was funny. See it doesn’t take much pressure to get some progress.

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