Romanoff Closes Gap on Norton, Survey Says
U.S. Senate candidate Andrew Romanoff has pulled into a virtual tie with the leading Republican contender and continues to run well ahead of Michael Bennet, according to a Rasmussen Reports poll released today. Read More
03/03/2010 - The Journal Advocate - Judy Debus - “I’m not taking contributions from special interest groups,” Andrew Romanoff told the Logan Democratic Party at their monthly Democrat Dinner on Tuesday evening. “We need to break the death grip those groups have on Congress."
Romanoff is a candidate for the U.S. Senate. He has traveled to all 64 counties in Colorado with his message that the special interests have enough politicians on their payroll and he wants to be the senator that is different. Read More
02/28/2010 - Summit Daily News - Robert Allen - Former Colorado Speaker of the House Andrew Romanoff visited Frisco on Saturday as he campaigns for the U.S. Senate.
Romanoff said he aims to help curb the partisan gridlock in Washington, D.C. through strategy that worked in Denver to “bring people together outside the Capitol to get things done inside.”
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02/28/2010 - Glenwood Springs Post Independent - John Gardner - Former Colorado Speaker of the House Andrew Romanoff spoke to local Democrats on Saturday at the New Castle Community Center during the Garfield County Democrat's central committee meeting.
“I'm running because I think the Senate has become the place where good ideas go to die,” Romanoff said. Read More
RealClearPolitics Blog - Rasmussen's latest numbers in the Colorado Senate race (500 LVs, 2/2, MoE +/- 4.5%) show that appointed Sen. Michael Bennet might not be the Democrats' strongest candidate against former Lt. Gov. Jane Norton, the early favorite on the GOP side. Former state House Speaker Andrew Romanoff (D) is running closer in some early matchups. Read More
2/26/2010 - The Colorado Statesman - Jody Hope Strogoff & Ernest Luning - Andrew Romanoff: "I spent 16 years uniting and strengthening and building the Democratic Party. They were united a year ago behind my candidacy, although it didn’t work out that way. But you know, we earned the support of almost every major newspaper in the state; 62 of the 64 county chairs; almost every Democratic legislator; and we’re building the same kind of coalition now. So, I think what a lot of Dems, what they’ve always wanted is to hold the seat, and I’ve got the best chance of doing that, as I think the most recent survey concluded." Read More
02/19/2010 - Ft. Morgan Times - Dan Barker - There are two kinds of politicians: Those who want to be somebody and those who want to do something, said Andrew Romanoff during a stop at the Country Steak-Out in Fort Morgan on Friday morning. Too many of those in the nation’s capital spend more time making sure they are re-elected than doing the job they were sent there to do, Romanoff said. Romanoff’s appearance was part of a tour of Northeast Colorado on Friday and Saturday. Read More
02/18/2010 - National Journal (The Hotline) - As a longtime legislator, Andrew Romanoff's no "outsider". But as Marco Rubio, Scott Brown and Rick Perry have shown, being in state government doesn't preclude one from wearing the anti-establishment label. Meanwhile, he's got a track record in Colorado for actually being a bipartisan deal-maker. In a year where voters want results, Andrew Romanoff has something to point to. Read More
02/09/2010 - Pueblo Chieftain - Matt Hildner - Andrew Romanoff brought his U.S. Senate campaign to the San Luis Valley, where he pointed to his time in the state House and said it gave him a good track record with the valley and rural areas across the state. Part of that record included campaigning across the state for Referendum C in 2006, which brought some relief to schools like Adams State College and Otero Junior College, he said. Read More
02/09/2010 - Cortez Journal - Steve Grazier - A former Democratic leader in the Colorado Legislature brought his campaign for the U.S. Senate to Cortez. Andrew Romanoff met with Montezuma County Democrats Saturday night at the downtown residence of Ron and Denise Rieb. About two dozen party members attended the 90-minute reception.
"Restoring common sense and courage" to Washington D.C. is a main theme Romanoff noted that he is campaigning on. Read More
02/08/2010 - The Durango Herald - Katie Burford - Andrew Romanoff, who is fighting for the Democratic Party's nomination for U.S. Senate, brought his “Main Street tour" to Southwest Colorado over the weekend with a message of curtailing special interests' influence in Washington.
Romanoff, in an interview Sunday at The Durango Herald, said he's not afraid to stand up to special interests or even his own party, “which is what I'm doing with this campaign, by definition." “My campaign is funded by people, not out-of-state interests," said Romanoff. Read More
02/05/2010 - Cherry Creek News - If it were up to the party regulars in Denver, Andrew Romanoff would be the next United States Senator from Colorado. In a rousing seven minute speech before the party's workers, he struck a tone of populist outrage and everyman concern that earned him a standing ovation.
Romanoff, embraced single payer health care, and launched a blistering attack on Washington Democrats for wasting their super majority and failing to deliver substantial change. It was, by turns, a solid recitation of his leadership in the State Legislature and a ringing call for change in the nation's Capital.
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02/05/2010 - Pueblo Chieftain - Peter Roper - Andrew Romanoff says the four-year fight between the Army and Southern Colorado ranchers over the Pinon Canyon Maneuver Site has gone on too long and — if elected to the U.S. Senate — he would permanently block any future expansion of the 238,000-acre training area near Trinidad.
"We need a total ban on (the Army) expanding Pinon Canyon," the former Democratic speaker of the Colorado House of Representatives said in an interview Thursday. "The ranchers down there deserve to have this fight come to an end once and for all." Read More
02/03/2010 - Steamboat Today - Mike Lawrence - The crowd at a Tuesday afternoon event in downtown Steamboat Springs indicated that Romanoff could present a strong Democratic primary challenger. He spoke at the Steamboat Springs High School graduation in 2008 and since the ’90s has attended numerous Jefferson-Jackson dinners held by the Routt County Democratic Party.
“He was always available,” said Ben Beall, a former county commissioner and former county Democratic Party chairman. “I don’t know how many times Andrew came up and spoke at our dinners.”
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02/01/2010 - Aspen Daily News - Andrew Travers - “More Coloradans contributed to our campaign in the last three months of the year than to any other campaign in Colorado,” said Romanoff, a four-term state representative and Speaker of the Colorado House who left the post due to term limits last year. “What that says to me is folks actually want a candidate to be accountable to them, not just to the special interest groups that bankroll Congress and block reform.” Read More
02/01/2010 - Aspen Daily News - Andrew Travers
Andrew Travers: What effect will the recent supreme court decision to allow unlimited corporate campaign donations have on the midterm elections?
Andrew Romanoff: I think one of the dangers is, say you’re a member of congress and there’s a bill in front of you and it might be bad for a giant corporation or some other special interest group, you’re now going to be thinking that your vote against the interests of this corporations will come back to bite you in millions of dollars in campaign advertising, because corporations are people and money is speech and special interest groups will now have the ability to bankroll without limit.
I think that’s not good, honestly. Read More
1/21/2010 - Fox31 - Eli Stokols - "Special interest groups poured $1 billion into the last election. Today's ruling just opened the floodgates for billions more. The Supreme Court said that corporations and other interest groups can spend as much as they want on independent expenditures. It's as if the justices took a look at America's political system and concluded that special interests don't have enough power," said Andrew Romanoff. Read More
1/12/2010 - Centennial Citizen - Peter Jones - Romanoff, who pledged not to accept contributions from corporate special-interest groups, tied the state of the final Senate bill to efforts by lobbyists for the insurance and pharmaceutical industries.
“I’m not a conspiracy theorist, but you can connect the dots without too much trouble,” he said. “If you allow large corporate special-interest groups to bankroll Congress, you ought not be surprised.” Read More
1/5/2010 - Washington Park Profile - Paul Kashmann - In August of this year, Democrats will go to the polls to select a candidate to compete against the choice of the Republican party. Our vote in that primary – and hopefully in the General Election – will go to Andrew Romanoff. Read More
12/13/2009 - Grand Junction Daily Sentinel - Charles Ashby - “This is not my first rodeo, nor is it my first trip to the Western Slope,” Romanoff said. “I’ve been crisscrossing the state for the last 16 years. A lot of people have told me they’ve been hoping for a break between elections, but I think people are excited to have a choice here.” Read More
