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December 05, 2009 09:41 PM UTC

Team Obama vs Team Obama - Romanoff vs Bennet

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  • by: wade norris

Interesting development in the Colorado Senate Primary Race involving Michael Bennet and Andrew Romanoff.

While Bennet has hired former Colorado Obama Organizer Craig Hughes it seems Romanoff has gotten some Obama mojo going as well.

http://www.denverpost.com/ci_1…

U.S. Senate hopeful Andrew Romanoff may so far have led a quiet campaign, but behind the scenes he’s getting some high-powered help from a Washington, D.C.-based consulting firm that includes some top Obama campaign field directors.

New Partners specializes in grassroots outreach and is informally helping Romanoff get his campaign off the ground, said the former state House speaker, declining to give more detail.

Among the high-profile partners are Dave Hamrick, a former field strategist for then-presidential candidate Barack Obama in the battleground states of Michigan and Pennsylvania, and Paul Tewes, renowned for his primary work for Obama in Iowa.

The introduction of New Partners should tamp down some of that, said Denver Democratic political consultant Steve Welchert. “That’s got a huge impact,” he said. “These are serious guys. Tewes ran Iowa for Obama; he’s an organizational magician.”

To me his move by Romanoff indicates that there will be a real fight in this primary.

Your thoughts?

update: per a commenter below that the guys mentioned in this article are some out of work campaigners…


Members of our team were instrumental in executing these victories:

   * Barack Obama’s historic Iowa caucus win, which launched his national campaign

   * Barack Obama’s groundbreaking national grassroots strategy and organization from the primaries through the general election

   * Howard Dean’s landmark “Fifty State Strategy” for the Democratic National Committee

   * The campaign that defeated George W. Bush’s plan to privatize Social Security

   * The development effort for Bono’s ONE Campaign against poverty

   * The elections of dozens of United States Senators, members of Congress and governors

   * The passage of key legislation ranging from budget appropriations to children’s health care

sounds like these guys have been pretty busy.

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21 thoughts on “Team Obama vs Team Obama – Romanoff vs Bennet

  1. these former Obama organizers joining Romanoff seems to indicate that they don’t believe this idea from this site:

    “his campaign is a complete disaster; hard to see where this is going now”

    Maybe time to change that statement in the big line?

    1. That’s a huge reach–it could just as easily be read to mean that his campaign IS such a disaster that they figure they can’t hurt . . . and it will keep them employed.  Cynical?  Sure.  Accurate?  Quite possibly.

            1. based on what I thought was a good diary by RSB.  As to whether Andrew is ‘coming back’ or–if as dukeco says–he never left, well on that I think the jury is still out.  

              I look forward to a good debate this Primary season, but I think AR has his work cut out for him if he wants to make it to the General.

              I think the back and forth between the true believers on both sides–Bennet is nothing but a well-heeled Wall Street waterboy and AR is a sunken ship–are probably a bit hyperbolic.  

                1. but I need AR to convince me if I am to vote against an incumbent that I think generally is doing a good job.  

                  For that I am looking for two things–1) that AR distinguish himself as better on the host of issues I care about, and 2) that he can win the General, which I do think comes down in large part (not entirely) to fund raising.  I too support public financing, but absent that he needs to show he is serious about raising the $15MM or so it will take to win.  

                  RE: the environment and public lands issues, I know Susan Daggett personally, have worked with her quite a bit, and think Sen. Bennet is generally good on these issues. His environmental staff is top notch too.

                  Still, as dukeco stated, I look forward to a good debate on issues and I think either man would represent me well in Washington.  

                    1. show Romanoff raised $247,551.27 total for his House races, including $91,736.55 for the most recent cycle (the 2006 race).

                      Since 2000, he received six contributions of $1,000 or more:

                      in 2002, his committee got $1,000 each from the D.C.-based I.B.E.W-C.O.P.E. and DASH-PAC, also D.C.-based.

                      in 2004, he got $2,000 from COLORADO PROFESSIONAL FIREFIGHTERS Small Donor Committee.

                      in 2006, he got $1,000 from the D.C.-based AFSCME SDC, $1,800 from COPIC (a small donor committee that gave equally to Democrats and Republican incumbents) and $2,000 from the REALTOR SMALL DONOR COMMITTEE

                    2. Point being that I don’t think AR is quite the fundraiser that some people seem to think he is, and his mediocre fundraising reports to date support that.  

  2. …to believe so easily (not that Bennet did; I’m referring to some of his local rooters) that an experienced and capable politician like Andrew Romanoff would, or did, lay down while Bus Bennet rolled over him. OR to believe that an experienced politician and speaker like Romanoff was no match for Mr. Inside.

    I refuse to admit that I’m citing GWB but there is something to the notion of praying for enemies who underestimate you. And here suddenly, after just one AR appearance, the debate springs to life! Vrrroooommmmm

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