In a wide-ranging one-on-one with Colorado Statesman editor Jody Hope Strogoff, Denver Post owner and publisher Dean Singleton says he "wasn't surprised" Michael Bennet won appointment to the U.S. Senate. According to Singleton, Bennet "was at the top" of Gov. Bill Ritter's list of potential replacements for Democratic U.S. Sen. Ken Salazar even before Salazar decided to take a job in the Obama administration as secretary of Interior.