November 23, 2009 11:44 PM UTC

Who's Driving the Romanoff Train?

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• by: Colorado Pols

Not much is known about what is actually going on inside Democrat Andrew Romanoff’s campaign for U.S. Senate. While it has been well-known and public knowledge for some time that Craig Hughes is Sen. Michael Bennet’s campaign manager, nobody outside of Romanoff’s inner circle seems to have any idea who is calling the shots for his upset bid.

We are hearing, however, that Sue Casey is longer be with the campaign. Casey, the former Denver City Councilwoman and one-time manager of Gary Hart’s 1988 Presidential bid, had been with Romanoff since the beginning of his campaign and was most recently being called a “Senior Advisor.” Casey was a bad choice to take a lead role to begin with, primarily because she hasn’t been engaged at this level of politics in decades, and maybe Romanoff himself figured that out. The rumor is that Casey was pushed out, and although we can’t confirm that, it would make sense given Romanoff’s oddly terrible campaign operation to this point in the race.

We’ve said it before, and we’ll say it again: How can someone as experienced as Romanoff, someone who polled on this race months ago, have been so unprepared to put a statewide campaign in place? If Romanoff is calling the shots on the campaign, then he’s as good as done because nobody can — or should — be their own campaign manager at this level. But if Romanoff is not making the ultimate decisions, then who is? And what the hell are they doing?