March 08, 2009 09:59 PM UTC

Updated:Overwhelming support for Andrew Romanoff for the Colorado Senate Primary...

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• by: wade norris

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Paul

Thanks to House Majority Leader Paul Weissmann for the email.

He is one of many…

(crossposted on Daily Kos)

Here in Colorado, we just had our annual Democratic Party Jefferson Jackson dinner. The speaker was former Clinton Aide, and CNN commentator, Paul Begala.

There were two things about this dinner that surprised me.

The first was the ability of Paul Begala as a speaker, (his closing topic about his Grandmother’s visit to the White House brought down the house)

and second, was the level of support for Andrew Romanoff for a Senate Primary run in 2010…

First of all, I was pleasantly surprised by Paul Begala. The man can give a speech. He is one those rare democrats that can weave his beliefs and religion into his speech without coming across as preachy. Thank you Mr. Begala.

Secondly, our first official testing of the waters was quite successful. At the Colorado Convention Center, the annual JJ Dinner was larger than it has ever been, and our numbers of elected officials was larger than it has ever been.

As we handed our volunteers their clipboards with sign up sheets and stickers that said “Friends of Andrew Romanoff”, I was a little skeptical about how willing people would be to show their support. It takes nerve for volunteers to circulate petitions for a primary at a formal function.

However, my volunteers were running out of stickers and out of sign up sheets and were turning people away by the time dinner started.

Senior Citizens don’t come up to you and grab your arm and tell you “tell him we are behind him” for nothing.

And, even more so, elected officials in the State House and Senate have a lot to risk by signing our sheets to support Andrew Romanoff in a primary, yet they still did so.

And this dinner was not a freebie. Tickets were over $100, and the people there are part of the fundraising base.

Barack Obama has proven that when the people are behind you, they can outraise the millionaires and make their voices heard.

Thanks to Ray, Lori, Alex, Faren, Julia and to Sarah for your hard work last night. (sorry I did not print up more stickers and sign up sheets!!!)

Mr. Romanoff, if you are reading this, the support for you is real, the people are behind you.