Why won’t Andrew Romanoff answer questions about the job Obama offered him to get lost?

by Donald E. L. Johnson | 7:02 pm, May 30, 2010 | Comments Off

A top official in the Obama Administration offered Democrat U.S. Senate candidate, Andrew Romanoff, a job if he would get lost and not challenge appointed Senator and Washington, DC, native, Michael Bennet, for the Democratic Party's nomination to the U.S. Senate. Such an offer by a federal official is a crime. Even Mike Littwin, the undeniably very liberal columnist at the Denver Post, sees an ethical problem for Romanoff because the supposedly squeaky clean senate candidate is playing by the rules of the Chicago politicians who are running Washington and the White House. That is, talk and you'll see the bottom of the Chicago River, virtually, if not literally. Littwin concludes: To sum up: Romanoff's principal campaign issue has been that Bennet is a creature of Washington and of big money, whose demands he cannot resist. And that's pretty much it. Romanoff, who has spent his political life touting his ability to compromise, now presents himself as someone unwilling to compromise a principle and always willing to take the tough, non-political stand on any issue.  Romanoff's campaign is an open book — unless, I guess, that whole transparency thing just becomes too inconvenient. I'm not even sure why it's so inconvenient. It could be that Romanoff is simply trying to be a team player with Washington — which is what he claims he would never be. Or maybe he doesn't want to get too deeply involved in explaining how many political jobs he has considered on the way to settling on his primary run for the U.S. Senate.  In any case, I don't see any scandal material here, except possibly this: that someone as experienced as Romanoff doesn't understand that this question will keep getting asked until he finally decides to answer it. I'm not surprised that Littwin has joined the paper's moderating editorial page (I'm told) in calling out politicians of both parties for their ethical lapses and hypocrisy.  Romanoff could become a hero and win a Senate seat by coming clean on the Obama administration's job offer. But that could get some people jailed and create big problems for the president. Romanoff is a professional politician and a lawyer. So it's easy to see why he won't "rat" on the White House. He's not as principled and anti-establishment as he's pretending to be.  Romanoff is an Obama Democrat, just like Sen. Bennet who wants everyone in Washington to clean up their political acts, but not Romanoff or Obama.

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