August 04, 2010 01:57 AM UTC

Bennet Campaign Capitalizes on Romanoff Disclosure

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• by: botw

Today’s news that Romanoff will take DSCC money funded by PACS is a major flip-flop in an important week.  It sort of takes the entire premise of Romanoff’s campaign and flushes it down the toilet.

Craig Hughes, Michael Bennet’s campaign manager, has jumped right on the embarrassing flip-flop of the Romanoff campaign with the following e-mail blast (minus a link):

Andrew Romanoff has based his entire campaign on attacking Michael Bennet over the issue of PAC money.

Today, Andrew’s campaign undercut its entire message by saying Andrew would indeed accept PAC money if he somehow were to prevail in the primary.

Unfortunately, voting in the primary has been going on for two weeks already, so 170,000 Coloradans have cast their ballot without knowing the truth about the defining issue of Andrew’s candidacy.

Please forward this email to anyone you know who hasn’t voted yet. They need to know that despite his claims to the contrary, Andrew Romanoff is more than willing to accept PAC money if it will help him win a higher office.

[Newspaper link removed]

Andrew’s campaign manager, Bill Romjue, told Politico today that Andrew would accept funds from the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (DSCC) in the general election, even though the organization takes money from PACs.

Romjue went on to say, “The percentage of PAC money they raise overall is low. We’re not going to unilaterally disarm.” Oh really? Of the DSCC’s funds, almost 20 percent comes from PACs, a higher percentage than our own campaign.

For nine months, Romanoff has accused PAC money of being tainted and a sure fire means of corruption for anyone who accepts it. Colorado voters deserve to know that the real Andrew Romanoff not only accepted PAC money when he was Speaker, he not only distributed money from his own PAC to other candidates — but, if he were to prevail in this primary he would again accept PAC money as a candidate.

It’s clear that Andrew Romanoff doesn’t even believe in the central issue of his campaign. If we can’t count on Romanoff to stand by the central premise of his campaign, what can we count on him to do?

Again, people are voting every day. Please forward this email so people know the truth about Andrew Romanoff before casting their ballot. Then use our online calling tool at https://___ to tell five other voters the truth before they vote.

Sincerely,

Craig Hughes

Campaign Manager

Bennet for Colorado