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US Senate candidate Andrew Romanoff
Andrew Romanoff, who is challenging Michael Bennet in the Democratic primary for the Senate seat in Colorado, will be on FDL tonight for a chat. He’ll be talking about Bennet’s failure to introduce a public option amendment, after leading the fight for an up-or-down vote in the Senate.
Romanoff issued a challenge to Bennet last week to live up to his commitment, and was on Firedoglake earlier this week to talk about it.
Bennet has been out-and-out lying about why he flogged the public option issue and then abandoned it, claiming he wouldn’t “play games with the lives of thousands of Coloradans and millions of Americans.”
As Jon Walker said, “That is absurd. The bill that expands insurance coverage was already signed into law. This reconciliation bill, with its minor changes for the employer mandate, and changes to the excise tax, is not playing games with the lives of millions of Americans.”
And Romanoff said:
That makes no sense. The bill they’re referring to is headed to the President’s desk. It will be signed into law tomorrow. Restoring the public option would strengthen health care reform. Leadership means more than making a speech or writing a letter — it means taking a stand, even if the leaders of your party aren’t ready to stand with you.
But that didn’t stop Bennet from smearing Romanoff, saying that he was “aligning with the GOP” and “continues stand with Republicans in Washington in opposition to real health care reforms” for suggesting Bennet should introduce a public option amendment. Instead, Bennet says he’ll introduce one in some fantasy future, when it once again won’t be able to clear the 60-vote bar.
Please join us tonight at 6pm and ask your questions of Andrew Romanoff.
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I guess the public option was never meant to be , regardless of all the talk we heard in support
typical politicians just saying what they think the voter wants to hear
Jon Walkers’ statement is pure lunacy or destructive propaganda or both …
and he’s characterizing Andrew Romanoff of conspiring with the pubs, please help me Mr Wizard … the world is upside down
How is Jon’s statement “…pure lunacy or destructive propaganda or both…”?
And Jon is not the one make the characterization of Romanoff as conspiring with Republicans – that’s Senator Bennet making that characterization.
AND THE KILLIN’ GOEZ ON AND ON AND…
Citizen Hamsher and the Firepup Freedom Fighters:
Keep the heat on, Sister Jane, you will soon have at least 2 and more probably 3 (including One Hung Harry) Senatorial scalps to hang in front of Senators when they convene in January, 2011. But there is an issue that is percolating in the backrooms of power and will be kept covered with the banking regulation and jobs efforts in the next few months and that is education and the use of federal funds to privatize our schools. If I’m not mistaken, Bennet was an education administrator in Colorado and I would like to know if he has any history with the issue of Charter Schools in that state.
I gotta take Mrs. Norske to dinner to celebrate our youngest gettin’ an assistantship to grad school so I hope you or one of the other Firepups can bring up the topic of public education and where Citizen Romanoff stands on the issue of Charter Schools.
KEEP THE FAITH AND PASS THE AMMUNITION, THE STRUGGLE IS NEVER OVER!!
I’m making another contribution to Romanoff today via ActBlue and will also make a contribution today to FDL Actions effort to run ads in Colorado.
Making and breaking promises is not ok. Saying you’re for something only to score points is not ok.
How long will Romanoff be here to discuss issues? I’m hoping he can stay for at least an hour.
So, as soon as Romanoff is in the catbird seat, he’ll end up doing what? That’s my question. Of course, we won’t know before it’s too late.
Then we note it, vote him out and go to the next one.
Lather, rinse, repeat as necessary
This is exactly what I would like to know too.
After all the “Lucy and the football” incidences with the Option over the past year, why should I, you (Mrs. Hamsher), or anybody else believe any Democrat who says “Why yes I will indeed fight for an Option”?
Bernie Sanders didn’t do it, Anthony Weiner didn’t do it, Kirsten Gillebrand didn’t do it, and Michael Bennett didn’t do it.
Alan Grayson is trying, but he’s also not a Senator, so.
Seriously. Mr. Romanoff. Give me and everyone else one really good, really awesome reason why you and you alone would pull a Jim Bunning or Bart Stupak and demand a public option until you actually get it?
When Senator Bennet started making very loud noises about a public option he piqued my interest. And over the past several days as his actions have demonstrated the flat-out insincere and self-serving nature of those noises, he has lost my support and vote. Speaker Romanoff is talking a good game so far.
May I respectfully ask [he says putting on his flame-retardant suit] how we are supposed
to distinguish Mr. Romanoff from JohnTester, Kay Hagen, Jim Webb, Jerry McNirney, Donna Edwards, Tammy Baldwin, Yvette Clark, Brian DeFazio, Dennis Kucinich and all the others who have said nice things and then disappointed us so badly? Any suggestions for separating the wheat from the chaff?
Here’s Romanoff’s page on his web site where he talks about health care reform:
• Making High Quality Health Care Affordable, Reliable and Portable
Nothing personal, but that’s not good enough.
Anyone can say anything they want to prop themselves up on their campaign websites, and most usually do.
Mike Bennett may have gone a lot way to proving he’s a sellout, but Andrew Romanoff has a long way to go to convince me he’ll be anything better.
Exactly. My guess after watching these people is he’ll use any wedge he can to win and then dream up a million excuses why someone else made it impossible to follow through. I trust none of these creatures anymore. Where was Sanders and Franken and Feingold today? Cowards the bunch. Not one, not one whose word means a thing.
Yea, don’t believe a word this guy utters it’s all self-serving BS only meant to get him elected and NOTHING more. A politicians word is worth NOTHING! Obama as an example said all the right things to win the nomination, hell you’d have thought the guy was Lenin in Moscow in 2008 but it was all LIES! This guy is NO different.