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August 04, 2010 01:57 AM UTC

Bennet Campaign Capitalizes on Romanoff Disclosure

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  • by: botw

Today’s news that Romanoff will take DSCC money funded by PACS is a major flip-flop in an important week.  It sort of takes the entire premise of Romanoff’s campaign and flushes it down the toilet.

Craig Hughes, Michael Bennet’s campaign manager, has jumped right on the embarrassing flip-flop of the Romanoff campaign with the following e-mail blast (minus a link):

Andrew Romanoff has based his entire campaign on attacking Michael Bennet over the issue of PAC money.

Today, Andrew’s campaign undercut its entire message by saying Andrew would indeed accept PAC money if he somehow were to prevail in the primary.

Unfortunately, voting in the primary has been going on for two weeks already, so 170,000 Coloradans have cast their ballot without knowing the truth about the defining issue of Andrew’s candidacy.

Please forward this email to anyone you know who hasn’t voted yet. They need to know that despite his claims to the contrary, Andrew Romanoff is more than willing to accept PAC money if it will help him win a higher office.

[Newspaper link removed]

Andrew’s campaign manager, Bill Romjue, told Politico today that Andrew would accept funds from the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (DSCC) in the general election, even though the organization takes money from PACs.

Romjue went on to say, “The percentage of PAC money they raise overall is low. We’re not going to unilaterally disarm.” Oh really? Of the DSCC’s funds, almost 20 percent comes from PACs, a higher percentage than our own campaign.

For nine months, Romanoff has accused PAC money of being tainted and a sure fire means of corruption for anyone who accepts it. Colorado voters deserve to know that the real Andrew Romanoff not only accepted PAC money when he was Speaker, he not only distributed money from his own PAC to other candidates — but, if he were to prevail in this primary he would again accept PAC money as a candidate.

It’s clear that Andrew Romanoff doesn’t even believe in the central issue of his campaign. If we can’t count on Romanoff to stand by the central premise of his campaign, what can we count on him to do?

Again, people are voting every day. Please forward this email so people know the truth about Andrew Romanoff before casting their ballot. Then use our online calling tool at http://___ to tell five other voters the truth before they vote.

Sincerely,

Craig Hughes

Campaign Manager

Bennet for Colorado

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13 thoughts on “Bennet Campaign Capitalizes on Romanoff Disclosure”

  1. Romanoff 2.1 is closer to AR1.0 than AR 2.0

    WWAR3.0D?

    Healthcare reform

    Bennet: When asked on CNN point blank if it costs you the election will you still vote for HCR – yes.

    AR: The process was flawed, whe shouldda got single payer, the bill doesn’t go far enough, it would only take one Senator to stand up and …blah blah blah.  I would hav evoted for it too.

    Financial Reform

    Bennet: the bill doesn’t go far enough,  it’s astart, but now we need to implement it and make it even stronger.

    AR: The process was flawed, whe shouldda undone the Clinton changes, the bill doesn’t go far enough, it would only take one Senator to stand up and …blah blah blah.  I would have voted for it too.

    PAC money

    Bennet: It’s a necessary evil, it’s crazy to unilaterally disarm, received 18.3% of total donations from PACs, lowest percentage of the whole Colorado delegation except Polis who mostly self funded,  still have more individual donors and more individual Colorado donors than any candidate in the race.

    Romanoff:

    AR1.0 PAC money is ok or even good. He had his own PAC.

    AR 2.0 Sep 2009  – July 2010 PAC money is always evil and corrupts those who take it.  

    AR 2.1 Aug 2010- tbd  PAC money is ok as long as it is laundered through a 3rd party, and he’s the recipient.

    Outside Colorado support

    Bennet- Welcomes support from all over the country.

    Romanoff  Outside support is bad, until Clinton endorsed him, then it’s ok.

    Immigration Reform

    Bennet- Gotta look at the Dream Act, gotta address employement verification

    Romanoff – AR 1.0 passed the CO bil out of the 06 Special Session  that he called the toughest blah blah blah.

    AR2.0 The AZ law is bad, The 06 special session was necessary to prevent getting an even worse law on the ballot and made part of the constitution.

    WWAR3.0D?

    1. It takes 24-48 hours to get an ad in rotation. Gotta produce it and ship it, and the stations have to swap it out. Doesn’t happen in 6 hours.

      1. Depending on whether you have your own production facility, what the content is, and so forth. It’s not very common, but it’s not exactly unheard of, either. Given the advances in video technology, turnaround times aren’t what they used to be 15-20 years ago.

        1. It’s the TV stations. They don’t want clients swapping out their ads all the time and making life totally confusing (and exposing themselves to liability by not running all the ads through the legal department), so they have deadlines and lead times. If they know an ad is coming, and you get it to them by close of business, you can usually get it running by the next day (for a price).

          With no notice, it takes more time.

    2. Today’s news that Romanoff will take DSCC money funded by PACS

      not true –

      Romanoff has never taken PAC money and never will – and the Politico story has been changed to reflect that.

      I am not taking PAC money now, and I will not take any PAC money in the general election.

      The DSCC is now supporting my opponent, supplementing the $1.3 million he has taken from PACs with independent expenditures of its own.

      After I win the primary, I will ask the DSCC to honor my pledge by excluding PAC dollars from any contributions or expenditures it makes on my behalf.

      1. I get it now.

        AR couldn’t possibly have changed his mind about anything. Cause he says that he’ll accept money from the DSCC but ask them to call it money from their non-PAC/lobbyist donations.

        The DSCC says it’s improbable  they’ll do that.  But as long as AR2.1 said it, Wade can interpret any way he wants.  It’s good. All good.

        Until the bad unicorns show up..See, if you think the good unicorns are good- and I think we can agree they are very very good –  then I gotta warn you about the bad unicorns, who are very very bad.

        Look – now that I said something, I can reference my own statement and add a twit and call it fact.

        The bad unicorns are scary and you will not like them one bit.

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