January 09, 2010 05:01 PM UTC

Stop Messing Around in Our State

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• by: Pam Bennett

What is it about Colorado that makes Obama/Emmanuel/? so ready to want to take over and run our Democratic Party and state?  I know Obama had the stage at Mile High Stadium for an hour, but that did not give him the keys to  777 Santa Fe.  He is as nice a guy as I’ve almost run in to, a fact he established after he and I almost ran into each other a couple of years ago; literally ran into each other in a hall way when we were not looking where we were going, and his Secret Service agent was laughing at us as we excused ourselves from near disaster.  

So far Obama has gotten his choice of a Senator, but he has not stopped there.  With Ritter heading to the “Former Gov’s” portrait and plaque lounge we have a lot of drama and fun of speculating who from a good half dozen qualified Democratic Party members will pick up the tee and plant it in the box for the next hole (See I can do sports talk too).  But right from the start we have been smothered with “. . . the White House would like . . .” talk.

First we have the White House stepping in to take our elected Senator from us.  It was K. Salazar whom the White House took for Interior Sec. A great move, Ken Salazar will be one of the best of the Interior Secretary’s  .   Which set up Bennet becoming the appointed Senator replacing Salazar. I would rather be a Senator than an Education Sec. any day myself (that is spelled Bennett).  It is a guaranteed lifelong job, unless someone who has faced election and public office and was the Speaker of the House, such as Romanoff, decides to let the good voters of Colorado have a choice.  That really upset the White House and the 100 most powerful men in the country.  

Now with K. Salazar saying no thanks even after the White House blessing of him to run for gov., we have several more qualified candidates to go.  For some reason Hickenlooper is high on the list and now we have “. . . the White House would like . . .” talk once again.  Did Obama enjoy a locally brewed beer while cooling down after a great acceptance speech?  Was it something about trying to spell Romanoff or Perlmutter that caused the White House to decide on Hickenlooper?

I am guessing that the White House is really PO’d that Romanoff has not been scared off by the Prez blessing Bennet as our Senator (a choice not one of us voted on).  So there is no “We like Andrew” placard in the White House window.

Why is the Obama/Emmanuel/? group trying to interfere in our elections again?  And speculating, something Colorado Pols  occupants do with gusto, why hasn’t the Prez declared our state a blight and appointed someone?  That would solve the problem of the pesky voters getting in the way of who the White House really wants to be gov.

Personally I would like to have a candidate announce that SHE or he would run for the gov’s office before the White House decides who will be our next governor.   I also would like to vote for that person without interference from Easterners or others messing around in our elections.  And, finally I would also like to point out that Colorado has a lot of women politicians in office.  All the way from “dog catcher” to Treasurer and almost 40% of the General Assembly are women.  

I want to vote for who represents me and Colorado and not have appointed and anointed politicos doing the job.