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.