February 25, 2010 10:27 PM UTC

More Romanoff Snark

•  
• by: botw

Today has brought yet another negative, name-calling broadcast e-mail from the Romanoff campaign, this one a message from Mike Miles that says in part:

Andrew is the only candidate in the race for the United States Senate in either party who has made a commitment to refuse special interest PAC contributions.  He has taken a strong position against the money driven, “you come to my fundraiser and I’ll vote for your bill,” culture in Washington.  Other candidates say they are for reform but they take the money and somehow never get around to actually changing anything.

The part about Romanoff not accepting PAC money is true, so long as you count only the last 5 months and not any of the ten years and four state house elections before that when the Romanoff Leadership PAC was open for business.

However, when coupled with the next two sentences, it makes the whole thing veer to snide, some would say just plain false and disingenuous.  Which Senators does the Romanoff campaign think say “you come to my fundraiser and I’ll vote for your bill”?  Which “take the money and somehow never get around to actually changing anything”?

Romanoff sure seems to be comfortable burning bridges, especially as someone who was for PAC money before he was against it.

Messages like this make it harder and harder for people of good will who support Bennet to ever support a Romanoff candidacy for anything in the future.  Truth and future be damned seem to be the motto over there.