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April 15, 2010 08:49 PM UTC

Andrew Romanoff focused on getting America's trade policy back on track

  • 54 Comments
  • by: Reality Czech

While the Bennet campaign is busy playing games about websites, Andrew Romanoff has made it clear that he intends to actually talk about issues during this campaign:

From Huffington Post:

American workers are among the most productive and highly skilled in the world. But we are forcing them to compete against countries that undervalue their currency, violate labor laws, abuse human rights, and degrade the environment.

This year alone, the trade deficit stands to cost us over 3 percent of our gross domestic product. That’s a loss of more than $400 billion per year. We are exporting opportunity and importing unemployment.

Full text available here:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/…

I’m also glad to see that a few media outlets actually want to talk about issues:

http://www.gazette.com/article…

The post covered it as well — but I guess Susan Greene was too busy to notice:

http://blogs.denverpost.com/th…

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54 thoughts on “Andrew Romanoff focused on getting America’s trade policy back on track”

  1. Just an observation here but you had your diary with a link to HP’s up within minutes of Romanoff’s diary being posted there. Either you are just super fast or you had this diary sitting in the can waiting for the green light from the campaign to post.

    As to Romanoff’s points, I’d like to see #5, in particular, be vigorously enforced. Right now the fox lives in the hen house and our food safety standards are a joke as long as Monsanto controls 90% of production of agricultural products and four companies control 90% of our meat industry. Our meatpacking industry and its related safety issues rival Sinclair’s The Jungle.

    I’d also like to see Kevin’s Law reintroduced to Congress.  

    1. with the gazette and post articles.  I thought I would check Huffpo too and decided to quote from that.  Just lucky timing, nothing nefarious and I can assure you.

    2. Romanoff’s communications guys had it up on FB minutes after posting it on HuffPo & once there thousands of his supporters could see it and looks like one copied & posted some links to it.  Welcome to the Internet where information travels quickly. I’m sure you’d be mocking people if it took too long for word to spread too. Sorry you’re still so bitter up there over past losses.

      3. and lots of new folks sign up. Reality Czech, for example, signed up on April 6 of this year. I’m not saying he or she is connected to the campaign, but it’s not unheard of for campaigns to encourage their supporters to sign up and use their comments to amplify their message.

        It’s got nothing to do with past losses. There’s a long-standing tradition of full disclosure when it comes to people working on campaigns, whether issue-based or candidate-based.

        Why did MOTR comment on it? I can’t speak for him, but from my experience writing content, the language in this diary looks & reads rather boilerplate-ish:

        While the Bennet campaign is busy playing games about websites, Andrew Romanoff has made it clear that he intends to actually talk about issues during this campaign

        Most folks, when writing diaries, don’t write or sound like that. So, yes, it’s a valid question. And if it was a Bennet-oriented diary, I’d be making the same point.

        (full disclosure: I’m working for every campaign. You’ll see – soon, some campaign will screw up horribly and blame the entire mess on a “rogue staffer” – that’s me!>

        2. I helped a few smaller candidates with press releases.  Guess i picked up political-speak at the time.  Sorry…guess I could try and sound folksy if it would help.

          I am secretly part of the “bring back Cleve Tidwell” campaign…and I’m in congress with the Devil.  Beyond that, I think I’m clear of needing a disclaimer /snark

  2. He’s just one of the best legislators around, regardless of the subject matter.  I’m glad he’s talking about this issue and I look forward to seeing him take it up when in the senate.

  3. The climate bill seeks to invest in a new manufacturing base. The President’s attempts to get China to float it’s currency. Cancelling NAFTa or GAAT won’t work at this point.Trade wars won’t work.

    This isn’t an AR novelty. The adminstration has been working on it since the President came into office.The main way to combat this issue is to unfortuantely raise taxes for that investment, unless we choose to borrow more from the Chinese which gives them more leverage not only in trade, but in National Secuirty.

    It’s good to see that AR is at least talking issues. It would be nice if his supporters would quit mudlsinging with AR’s consent.

    If the mudslinging keeps up, and AR is the nomnee then the Bennet supporters will just stay home and AR will have insured us of Sen Buck or Sen Norton.

    I look forward to when AR takes a stand against the mud, and acknowledges that he has much in common with President’s agenda.

    1. I am not going to look it up, but I recall when this came up before China hinted about divesting their US Treasury portfolio and supporting the call for oil markets to be denominated in Euros or anything but $.

      Either would be painful.

      Deficit reduction, debt reduction, currency stabilization will follow and then we can do what needs be done to get the yuan to value closer to the market.

      1. with this issue. Obama met with Hu earlier this week, has met with Henry Kissinger to pick his brain about how to approach this, and most recently US Rep Larsen weighed in. (He’s heavily involved with the U.S.-China Working Group.)

        Seems to be an issue that is in the forefront of the news right now with many different ideas of how to solve the trade imbalance.

        http://www.businessweek.com/ne…

    2. don’t you realize that you are just continually attacking Romanoff (and supporters) while yelling that Romanoff supporters shouldn’t be attacking Bennet?  I mean it’s a little hypocritical.  Are you actually adding something to this thread?

      I’m pretty sure Reality Czech didn’t said that Andrew is the only person to ever discuss this issue, just that he was talking about it…while Bennet’s camp was busy staring at Andrew’s website.  Maybe you should go help Bennet collect petitions — it would be more useful to your candidate.

      1. I rebut falsehoods. Andfrew tells half truths and spins. Lets get real.

        You’d do better to tell your candidate to simply run on issues, and to not reinvent the wheel trying to say he’s the President (like in this HP post).

        He is not.

        If you don’t take my advice, I guarantee that you can thank Andrew for a D loss in November.

    3. you need to relax. To the degree that there’s been sniping back and forth, it’s been picayune. No one’s going to go sit in a corner in a snit during the fall.  

      1. Mny Bennet supporters from sefveral counties are talking about flat not voting for Andrew if his mudlinging continues.

        I think Bennet will still win the primary.

        How long will we have to wait to see AR’s fundraising? He could post it today.They are holding back for some reason.Yesterday the coordinated mud on FB, and the blogs was quite bad.

        1. Ray doesn’t like Andrew. We got it. It’s like the sequels to a bad horror movie, it wasn’t interesting the first time so why do you think people still care?

          2. I dislike his mudslinging campaign.

            Mr.Sock puppet tell Andrew to quit dissembling and spinning, and his staff to quit coordinated mudlsinging attacks that have gone on since September.

            I have over 1800 Fb friends, with about 90% political people from all over Colorado.

            I’m just telling you sock puppets the truth.

            If don’t listen, your candidate will lose. It will either be the primary, or the general election.Either way.

            Some people can’t handle the truth

            1. are you really making threats based on how many facebook friends you have?  Wow. Just wow.

              Look social networking is a neat tool and it can be helpful in organizing, but I’d guess most of your ‘friends’ make up their minds on their own…given that you said they were political people from CO.

              1. even though Andrew sent his Mother to the caucus.We won at the assembly, too.

                We did that with phone calls and door knocking. Not by sock puppet propaganda.

                Keep mudlsinging. You will lose.

                Tell Andrew that sock puppets are like the Klan wearing the sheet, since he sites his internship in 1987 with SPLC as part of his resume.They didn’t recognize the name when I called for verfication and had to dig into the paper files to find Andrew.

                I’m popular with the SPLC. I was invited by Morris Dees and Rosa Parks to be honored 5 years ago to be a Wall of Tolerance founding honoree.

                I’ve really tried to communicate with you folks.It’s hopeless. All a non sock puppet campaign worker claims on FB is that Andrew cannot control his supporters. That’s complicity by consent and not leadership.

                Andrew can lose in August, or lose in Novemmber if your views represent his.

                  1. But if Andrew is such a civil rights advocate, then he gets the point.

                    I’ve lived in theBlack community as my adoptive father was African-American.

                    I’ve directly seen bigotry from a unique perpective. I don’t ever apologize for the analogy.

            2. You really need to stop attacking people and then claim the other side is mud slinging.

              So why is it that your opinion is so much more valid than others with less Facebook Friends? If I didn’t know any better I would swear you were writing this in between classes at Junior High.

              Just stop. You are not helping your cause.

              1. which are many. i wouldn’t be being attacked by his anonymous crew if i wasn’t haviong an impact. I use facts. their is a difference.

                Andrew doesn’t like it because it lessens the impact of his negative campaign. I’ll stop when they do.

                So tell your boss to quit saying he has no control over his people.

                1. I don’t really give a hoot what you do. I am merely suggesting that you stop going after people who disagree with you because it does nothing except make you look like a crazy person.

                  You intend on giving people a sense that Andrew is flippant about mudslinging, which is a rotten lie. Never once have I heard him, (or anyone on his staff) say anything about wanting people to attack others on blogs. That is ridiculous. I highly doubt THEY are concerned in the slightest with people like you. Stop flattering yourself.

                  I don’t know Ray, maybe when the Primary is over, we can all work together for the chosen candidate. I know I would like to.

                  It’s too bad you can’t say the same.

                    1. Although does “MAD”CO mean crazy?

                      Is dukeco1 a real Duke? Or maybe an Admiral?

                      Does Peacemonger actually believe in peace?

                      Does ClubTwitty believe in beating people up who use Twitter? lol

                      I’m just joking around with you MADCO, I like your comment. I think it’s funny. And clearly, you can tell I just went through people who posted here and tried to make up jokes. I clearly could have made better ones.

      2. What Romanoff’s been doing isn’t mudslinging. If those precious, delicate flowers think it is, then they must be awfully sheltered.

        Sorry to be harsh, but if anyone is seriously thinking of sitting out the fall election because their precious sensibilities were offended, then I have to question just how serious they are about being involved in the political process. What’s taken place so far is a whole lot of nothing.

        1. It is anonymous wimps like yourself that can’t handle what the Republicans will bring.

          We’ve stayed away from his investments and his other weaknesses. The Republicans won’t.

          If you don’t think you need half the Democratic party, then keep it up.

              2. No switching to decaf. Ray gets more and more entertaining by the minute. One day he swears Romanoff claimed to be a lawyer, next he apologizes before screaming that he can prove Romanoff lied, has hidden wealth and skeletons in the closet that only the great Ray and the GOP know about. Plead for unity one day, vow to never vote for Romanoff the next. I hope election day comes on one of his “good” days so he can put the round peg in the round hole.

          2. Roguestaffer has had a pretty long history on here talking about issues and explaining things for people…you might want to think about who you are attacking.

            The republicans will bring everything they have at either candidate.  That’s a given.  Frankly if either candidate has anything to hide this is the time to bring it out.  You have the classic “dead girl, live boy” pictures on someone, you bring them out.  This is our chance to pick the who we want to take on Norton or Buck.

            If you think this DPS stuff is bad for Bennet now, wait until the republicans spin it worse than it is.  Between that and closing/consolidating businesses when he worked for Anschutz, the 527 ads write themselves.

          3. take a deep breath.

            @MOTR, @RC: thanks for the vote of confidence.

            I’ve been called many things in my time on this planet, but I haven’t been called a wimp since, oh, about 7th grade back in New York. :-).

            Seriously, though – what’s happened in this race isn’t mudslinging. You want mudslinging? This is mudslinging:

            Another candidate, Harold See, ran against Mark Kennedy, an incumbent Democratic justice and the son-in-law of George Wallace. The race included charges that Kennedy was mingling campaign funds with those of a non-profit children’s foundation he was involved with. A former Rove staffer reported that some within the See camp initiated a whisper campaign that Kennedy was a pedophile.[17] Kennedy won by less than one percentage point.

            (source: Wikipedia entry for Karl Rove)

            Now that’s mudslinging. What’s happened here in this race is the equivalent of two pugs squaring off and barking at each other, if I can be humorous for a second. It’s what happens in a primary when there’s little ideological difference between the two candidates and their partisans invest their personal identity in making sure that their candidate wins.

            I’m a registered Democrat, and I’ll be happy with whomever comes out of the primary, precisely because there’s little to no difference between either candidate, except maybe at the margins, and both would be fine senators.

                1. And he’s right. Or at least he’s not wrong.  Except sometimes being right, even when you are, isn’t the only point.

                  11+ weeks and ballots are in the kitchen. We gotta start focusing.

            2. You are one of the best contributors to this site in the last year. Please continue to provide your insight and commentary. It’s been beyond insightful.

    1. please don’t pretend like this is the first time you’ve seen Andrew talk about issues.  You made a really similar comment when he put out a statement about net neutrality.

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