September 21, 2009 10:38 PM UTC

DSCC hires DC firm for Romanoff hit piece? Enquiring minds...

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• by: wade norris

(originally posted as “A Perfectly Awful story on Romanoff vs Bennet)

Malcolm Glenn just put up an article on Huffington Post that shows a real double standard on Obama’s endorsement for Michael Bennet. It is replete with gems like this one:

But what’s there to love on the left from Romanoff? Idealists make up the base in Denver’s Democratic political circles, but is a career politician really the man the state’s progressives think can be their biggest champion?

I don’t know where to begin, except to say, as I have journeyed around the state to rural Colorado – it has been apparent that Andrew Romanoff’s support does not reside alone in “Denver’s Democratic circles”. Saying that AR owes his strength to idealists in Denver shows a lack of understanding about the Democratic Party of Colorado.

(the rant continues)

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/…

It is a fact that 62 of the 64 county chairs indicated they preferred Romanoff for the Senate appointment. That in itself should show a statewide level of support, outside of my encounters with rural Colorado democrats.

Furthermore, if you are looking to stop the tide of “career politicians” from blocking real “change” from happening in Washington, then why don’t you join the Progressives in Pennsylvania who are supporting Joe Sestak – over Arlen Specter – a true ‘career politician’ who only switched parties after his handlers showed him his polling numbers, and then after he switched kept voting republican until labor started backing Sestak – then he ‘saw the light’ and changed his stance on the PO and EFCA.

Oh, maybe it’s because Obama supports Arlen Specter?

And this:

Isn’t there something to be said about a diversity of experience — the experience of someone who has lived abroad, who showed creative acumen and early leadership by leading his law journal at one of the world’s most prestigious universities? A man who was deeply involved the micro decision-making process in the same small, urban communities that need the most attention when he gets to Washington?

I could just as well be describing President Obama, whose strikingly similar background was a prime talking point for progressives who caucused for him by a two-to-one margin over Hillary Clinton last year.

I know you did not just compare a never elected appointee to Barack Obama – who himself was told to sit down and get out of the way of President Hillary’s inevitabilty?

And Obama served 6 years in the Illinois state senate before becoming a Senator and then President.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I…

Bennet worked for Anschutz and was appointed to DPS.

Romanoff served 8 years in the State House and is now running for Senate.

Which story has more in common with Barack Obama.

finally this

So, considering 40 years of a GOP stranglehold on Colorado presidential picks, things are going well for the state’s Democrats.

FACT: Clinton won this state in 1992.

I am glad to read that we are getting local opinion out there on Huffington Post Denver – too bad it is opinion that leaves a lot to be desired.

hattip to Tyler C. for showing me this on Facebook

Update: courtesy of David Sirota

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/…

What Glenn does not disclose in his own Huffington Post biography or in his post – and what he should disclose – is that (according to his own LinkedIn profile) he works for a Washington, D.C. polling firm called Greenberg, Quinlan Rosner. As Greenberg, Quinlan Rosner’s website notes (and as anyone in DC Democratic politics knows), one of the firm’s big clients is the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee – a fundraising operation that has endorsed Bennet and is raising money for him. Put another way, Glenn is employed by a company with a financial interest in Bennet’s campaign.