Tag: Michael Bennet
Romanoff concedes to Bennet, says he’ll help incumbent win in November
U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet campaign spokesman Trevor Kincaid told the Colorado Independent that Democratic primary challenger Andrew Romanoff just called Bennet and conceded the...
Top Colorado primary race results may be hazy for weeks
** Updated below with new numbers
The hot primary contests for U.S. Senate pitting Michael Bennet against Andrew Romanoff on the Democratic side and Ken...
Poll: Bennet would lead in general election
Tom Jensen has released a Primary Day report on a Public Policy Polling survey that found Coloradans don't like any of their options for...
U.S. Senate primary: grassroots vs insiders, but who’s who?
With two close primary races for the U.S. Senate, some Colorado voters will go to the polls today or drop off last-minute mail-in ballots to determine who will battle it out in November. The vast majority of votes in what could be a record for a primarily mail-in election are already in. And the candidates for both parties would have voters believe that what’s at stake is the soul of the state – grassroots, western self-determination versus entrenched, inside-the-Beltway career political cronyism.
Clinton records robo-call for Romanoff
Former President Bill Clinton recorded a message in support of former Colorado State House Speaker Andrews Romanoff that is being sent out by robocall today to Democratic voters across the state.
VIDEO: Bennet says Times got DPS deal wrong
The New York Times waded into the Colorado Democratic U.S. Senate primary Thursday with a lengthy investigative piece detailing a flashy Denver Public Schools interest-swap refinance deal brokered in part by U.S. Senator Michael Bennet as superintendent. The Times story of a stacked transaction that produced windfall profits for the banks but catastrophe for the schools has given new life to questions raised by Bennet detractors about his relationship to big money. The Bennet campaign says the Times simply got the story wrong.
Shadowy 527 running ads attacking Bennet
A newly-organized 527 group with dubious origins is running factually inaccurate radio ads against Sen. Michael Bennet (D).
The group, called New Leadership For Colorado,...
Obama, likely reacting to polling, endorses Bennet on teleconference
On a town-hall style press conference call Tuesday night, President Barack Obama joined Sen. Michael Bennet to present his reasons Democratic voters should choose the incumbent Democratic senator as their candidate over former state Speaker of the House Andrew Romanoff in Tuesday's primary election.
Romanoff will not accept PAC-tainted dollars from DSCC
Sen. Michael Bennet's campaign jumped on a story by Politico that had Romanoff Campaign Manager Bill Romjue stating that they had made no decision yet on whether to take Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee funds that are tainted with Political Action Committee dollars, and then reversed that decision a day later saying that in fact they would accept those donations. Romanoff's campaign said a communication error had occured.
Exasperated Bennet ‘driven nutty’ by deeply dysfunctional Senate
Michael Bennet is battling hard in a nasty Democratic primary for the right to keep his seat in the U.S. Senate, even though he...