Andrew Romanoff's cynical fratricide
By DANA MILBANK
WashPost
Sunday, June 13, 2010
When I worked on the college paper as a freshman, the editor was a talented but prickly junior by the name of Andrew Romanoff. He clashed so fiercely with the newspaper's business staff that he and the publisher communicated only through memos. Instead of putting all effort into the newspaper, energy was wasted on internal squabbles.
I recalled that long-ago episode while watching this year's Colorado Senate race, in which my old editor Romanoff is challenging Sen. Michael Bennet for the Democratic nomination. The dynamic is much the same: Rather than furthering the causes they agree on -- there isn't a dime's worth of difference in their ideologies -- Romanoff is provoking a Democratic family feud.
He's painting Bennet, a former Denver schools superintendent appointed to the vacant Senate seat last year, as a Washington insider on the take from corporate donors. "The nation's biggest insurance firms, drug makers, oil companies and Wall Street banks are pouring hundreds of thousands of dollars into my opponents' campaign coffers," Romanoff alleged at a rally this year. "Why?" he asked. "What have they already gotten" for their money?
Having accused his opponent of corruption, Romanoff announced that "our campaign does not accept money from political action committees."
(More here.)
WashPost
Sunday, June 13, 2010
When I worked on the college paper as a freshman, the editor was a talented but prickly junior by the name of Andrew Romanoff. He clashed so fiercely with the newspaper's business staff that he and the publisher communicated only through memos. Instead of putting all effort into the newspaper, energy was wasted on internal squabbles.
I recalled that long-ago episode while watching this year's Colorado Senate race, in which my old editor Romanoff is challenging Sen. Michael Bennet for the Democratic nomination. The dynamic is much the same: Rather than furthering the causes they agree on -- there isn't a dime's worth of difference in their ideologies -- Romanoff is provoking a Democratic family feud.
He's painting Bennet, a former Denver schools superintendent appointed to the vacant Senate seat last year, as a Washington insider on the take from corporate donors. "The nation's biggest insurance firms, drug makers, oil companies and Wall Street banks are pouring hundreds of thousands of dollars into my opponents' campaign coffers," Romanoff alleged at a rally this year. "Why?" he asked. "What have they already gotten" for their money?
Having accused his opponent of corruption, Romanoff announced that "our campaign does not accept money from political action committees."
(More here.)
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1 Comments:
This is an infantile attack on Andrew Romanoff which shows sour grapes of some kind? Did Dana not like your college editor editing his work? Is the fact that the other candidate's brother is a friend of his not influenced his reporting here? I think his outrageous misrepresentation of facts is deplorable and the Washington and Denver Posts should be ashamed to have published this.
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