Sen. Bennet: I knew White House urged Romanoff not to run

The Hill ^ | 6/11/2010 | J. Taylor Rushing

[Qbert]

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.”

Bennet said he didn’t remember specifically how he was made aware of the contact, but pointed to a September 2009 Denver Post article about Messina’s contact with Romanoff. An aide clarified that Bennet knew before the article’s publication of the White House contacting Romanoff. Romanoff, a former state House speaker, attracted headlines recently by stating he was contacted by Messina last September with various job offers. Romanoff said Messina made it clear he could not guarantee the appointments, and Romanoff said he rejected the overture.

The White House has confirmed the contact but denies any jobs were offered. Media reports suggest three specific positions were mentioned: a Central-American administrative post, the directorship of the U.S. Trade and Development Agency, and the head position at the Office of Democracy and Governance at USAID.

Bennet and Romanoff face off Aug. 10 for the Democratic nomination for the Senate seat.

The White House also contacted Pennsylvania Rep. Joe Sestak (D) in hopes of avoiding a primary challenge to incumbent Sen. Arlen Specter (D-Pa.).

[Qbert]

...I love how Romanoff and co. keep claiming that the appointments couldn't be "guaranteed". Why would somebody withdraw from a Senate race for some position that they might not even get? How stupid do these people think we are?

What positions were really offered to him?

[IrishCatholic]

It was posted on other threads he changed his vote to support health care, so of course he knew. That was his pay off for changing the vote.
(I hate rumors. I will have to go back and verify this to myself. I don’t remember when it was posted, so take my point with a grain of salt.)

[Morgan in Denver]

Peter Boyles on KHOW radio has been all over this but the time line remains a bit uncertain. But, with this admission it appears Bennett did know about the phone call which makes his voting suspect.

If you're able early weekdays, you can pick Boyles up on the internet at http.//www.khow.com He's on-air from 5 to 9 AM and has been hitting this story almost daily.

[TigersEye]

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[Ann Archy]

SOMEONE needs to ask SPECTER if he was PROMISED that NO ONE would RUN AGAINST HIM!

[Nachum]

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