September 14, 2009 06:09 PM UTC

Sue Casey to Manage Romanoff Campaign?

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• by: Colorado Pols

The hot rumor over the weekend was that Andrew Romanoff would tap former Denver city councilwoman and failed mayoral candidate Sue Casey to manage his campaign for the U.S. Senate.

Casey would be an interesting, though not necessarily inspired, choice to lead Romanoff’s Senate bid. Casey did once manage former Senator Gary Hart’s campaign for President, but that was a loonnggg time ago. Today’s campaigns are nothing like those that were run 20 years ago, and Casey learned that lesson firsthand when she was drilled while trying to run for Denver Mayor in 2003.

Romanoff has always been well-known as a policy wonk, but he has never been lauded as someone with a keen campaign mind. For someone who spent so many months contemplating a run for U.S. Senate, it’s a little odd that he wasn’t ready to go with his campaign dream team from the get-go.