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Defending Seniors—and the Truth

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE | JULY 28, 2010 | ROMANOFF FOR COLORADO

For the second time in a week, my opponent has attempted to mislead the citizens of Colorado (1). Here are the facts:

• I oppose the privatization of Social Security. I said so in the vote I cast in the state legislature (2), and I renew that pledge now. The resolution my opponent cites has nothing to do with privatizing Social Security; in fact, it specifically urges Congress NOT to cut Social Security benefits (3).

• My leadership on issues of concern to seniors earned me 100% ratings from AARP, the Colorado Senior Lobby, and the Colorado Gerontological Society (4).

Greeley Tribune:  Romanoff best bet in primary

7/25/2010 - Greeley Tribune - Andrew Romanoff, former speaker of the House for the Colorado General Assembly, has enough political know-how to hit the floor running. His leadership in Colorado government showed us Romanoff is a man who knows how to get things done. That is the primary reason Romanoff receives our endorsement.

We support Romanoff as the Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate.  Read More

Romanoff Vows to Make Climate Change a Top Priority

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE | JULY 23, 2010 | ROMANOFF FOR COLORADO

U.S Senate candidate Andrew Romanoff issued the following statement today upon the Senate Democrats' decision not to pursue climate-change legislation this year: 

One of the worst disasters in American history has left our nation heartbroken and angry. In the U.S. Senate, however, it's business as usual. Yesterday we received word that the United States Senate shot down a proposal that would put caps on carbon emissions.

Romanoff Calls on Bennet to End Washington Tactics

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE | JULY 21, 2010 | ROMANOFF FOR COLORADO

U.S. Senate candidate Andrew Romanoff made the following remarks at a press conference in Denver today:

John Adams once said, "Facts are stubborn things." He was right.

I realize that truth is often the first casualty of a political campaign. That's why it's so important for us to stick to the facts.

Endorsement: Romanoff has earned the opportunity

7/15/2010 - Colorado Springs Independent - Andrew Romanoff, we firmly believe, is the best and right choice to endorse in this primary as the next U.S. senator from Colorado. He has shown how well he can work with the other party and the executive branch, from his years in state government.

... Romanoff's coalition-building skills can make him a distinguished senator who will influence, and shape, the national debate that will impact both Colorado and the nation.

... We see Romanoff as potentially one of the premier senators and statesmen of this generation.

Romanoff brings passion for teaching to U.S. Senate primary race

7/14/2010 - The Denver Post - Michael Booth - Andrew Romanoff's commitment to education dates to the weeks after he left Yale University as an undergraduate, when he traveled to Costa Rica hoping to teach English to the needy.

Costa Ricans weren't needy enough by his estimate, so he waited in a visa line every day at the Nicaraguan Embassy until they would let him in to one of the Western Hemisphere's poorest countries.

Romanoff, the former Democratic state House speaker who is running against U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet in the Democratic primary, says his formative Colorado experience was driving the state from morning to midnight campaigning for a rural school reconstruction fund.

Firefighters endorse Romanoff

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE | JULY 12, 2010 | ROMANOFF FOR COLORADO

The influential West Metro Firefighters Local 1309's endorsement has long been considered an important bellwether in Colorado. This week, the union threw its support behind Andrew Romanoff. Local 1309 is the first firefighting union to make an endorsement in Colorado's U.S. Senate race.

"We have a long relationship with Andrew Romanoff," said union representative Sean Jewell. "Over the years, when he was in the statehouse, he took time to understand the dangers we face and supported our concerns. He has always been up front and very well educated on the issues. And we support those who support us."

Romanoff visits Eagle County

7/8/2010 - Vail Daily - Lauren Glendenning - Andrew Romanoff is hoping Eagle County locals know him as the candidate money can't buy, but more importantly he hopes locals just know him.

Romanoff is running his campaign on the principles that he's not taking campaign contributions from special interest groups or corporations. He said 95 percent of his campaign money comes from Colorado donors, which is why voters should trust that he'll be serving them in the U.S. Senate, not other interests.  Read More

Romanoff reaches to the grassroots

7/8/2010 - Summit Daily News - Julie Sutor - A volunteer for Andrew Romanoff's Senate campaign was recently pounding the pavement in Delta, when a prospective voter asked the volunteer, “Do you know Andrew?”

“No,” the volunteer responded, “But he knows us.”

Romanoff, a former Speaker of the Colorado House of Representatives, thinks that's a pretty high compliment. And he says it speaks to his considerable legislative experience, through which he had to become very well acquainted with Colorado citizens.

Romanoff Wins Support of Denver School Bus Drivers and Mechanics

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE | JUNE 30, 2010 | ROMANOFF FOR COLORADO

Amalgamated Transit Union (ATU) Local 1563, which represents the bus drivers and mechanics at Denver Public Schools, this week unanimously endorsed Andrew Romanoff.

President Bill Clinton supports Andrew Romanoff

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE | JUNE 29, 2010 | ROMANOFF FOR COLORADO

The following statement was released by President Bill Clinton:

I first met Andrew Romanoff in 1992, when he was a student at the Kennedy School of Government and I was a candidate for President.  Four years later, I was running for a second term, and he had just been elected to his first -- as one of Colorado's representatives on the Democratic National Committee.

I was proud to carry Colorado in 1992, but you should be even prouder of what Andrew Romanoff did to turn the state blue.  He worked harder than anyone in Colorado to put Democrats in positions of power -- and to use that power to benefit every single citizen.

Loopholes & Exemptions; How the oil & gas industry is allowed to police itself

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE | JUNE 24, 2010 | ROMANOFF FOR COLORADO 

U.S. Senate candidate Andrew Romanoff made the following statement today at a press conference where he was joined by several environmental leaders:

"The blowout on Deepwater Horizon caused the worst environmental disaster in American history.  But the hole in the well isn't the only one Washington needs to plug.

"A series of legal and regulatory loopholes has effectively allowed the oil and gas industry to police itself.  Many of these loopholes remain wide open:

Andrew Romanoff Visits Berthoud

06/22/2010 - Berthoud Recroder - Area citizens gathered at the home of Bill Wendt to hear Andrew Romanoff, Democratic candidate for the US Senate, speak on issues related to the environment, developing alternative energy resources, the need to reform the way Washington works and increase the power of the people.

Reasons given by those who attended varied. Dave Kramer from Johnstown, Ray Hupp of Loveland, and teenagers Javan Wendt and Daniel Heiser had not met Romanoff but were interested in what he had to say. Others of the 35 who attended echoed the theme that attended to “listen and learn.” Read More

Senate hopeful pushes economic development, PCMS ban

6/15/2010 - Trinidad Times Independent - Randy Woock - U.S. senatorial candidate Andrew Romanoff made a campaign stop in Trinidad Saturday afternoon, visiting the Trinidad State Nursing Home, the Santa Fe Trail Days Festival and discussing improvements in rural health care access, economic development and the Piñon Canyon Maneuver Site (PCMS).

Romanoff told The Times Independent that he favored directing proportional amounts of economic development dollars, from state and federal levels, to stimulate growth in rural areas. “The metro areas shouldn’t have a monopoly on all the economic development assistance,” he said. “What I tried to do in the State House, and what we can do in the Senate, is I tried to steer economic development assistance, transportation, education, health-care funding to rural parts of the state, not just the metro areas.” 

Andrew Romanoff highlights Monroe Organic Farm in Kersey

6/3/2010 - The Greeley Tribune - Nate A. Miller - As the vibrant green and rich brown landscape of the Monroe Organic Farm stood out against an overcast horizon, Andrew Romanoff knelt and planted a pepper, his tie swaying in the wind.

He said he made a campaign stop because he wanted to draw attention to the importance of supporting local businesses and food safety.

“We should look at clear labeling and clear safety requirements for genetically modified organisms for out-of-state or out-of-country products,” he said. Read More

Andrew Romanoff talks education

6/1/2010 - INDenverTimes - Nancy Mitchell - Andrew Romanoff proved he was not afraid to get dirty tackling tough education issues when, in a 2007 tour of rural schools, he poked his head into bat-guano filled attics to check out failing roofs and climbed atop rickety metal ladders to explore dubious fire escapes.

That experience eventually led to passage of Colorado’s first major investment in the capital, rather than operational, needs of schools statewide, a program known as BEST or Building Excellent Schools Today.

“It is the largest investment in school construction in state history,” said Romanoff, a Democrat who was then Speaker of the House, “probably because it’s virtually the only significant investment in school construction that we’ve made at a state level in the history of Colorado.”

Romanoff wins top billing on Democrats’ U.S. Senate ballot

5/23/2010 - The Denver Post - Michael Booth - Andrew Romanoff won more than 60 percent of state delegates Saturday, pushing him to the top line of the Democrats' primary ballot over Sen. Michael Bennet and giving his supporters new hope for August.

Romanoff, the former state House speaker, won 60.4 percent of more than 3,500 delegates at the Democratic State Assembly, improving on his earlier caucus totals of about 57 percent. U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet, appointed to the seat 16 months ago, won 39.6 percent of the delegates.

Challenger Romanoff wins Colorado Party Assembly

5/22/2010 - New York Times - Jeff Zeleny -  If the political rules of Colorado were similar to those in neighboring Utah, yet another United States senator would have fallen to defeat on Saturday.

But fortunately for Senator Michael Bennet, Democrat of Colorado, the rules are different. And even though he finished a distant second at the state Democratic assembly on Saturday, his candidacy will proceed to a primary contest in August.

Andrew Romanoff, a former speaker of the Colorado House, won the support of 60 percent of the Democratic delegates. Mr. Bennet, who needed 30 percent support to qualify for the August ballot, won 40 percent. He had long been downplaying his chances among party insiders and had already decided on a backup path to the primary contest if he did not reach the 30 percent threshold: gathering signatures to petition his way onto the ballot.

Romanoff wins big at State Assembly

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE | MAY 22, 2010 | ROMANOFF FOR COLORADO 

ROMANOFF WINS BIG AT STATE ASSEMBLY;
21-POINT MARGIN;
ANTI-INCUMBENCY FEVER HITS COLORADO

State Assembly results:

ROMANOFF 60.4%
BENNET 39.6%

GAME ON.

Romanoff on Financial Reform Bill

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE | MAY 21, 2010 | ROMANOFF FOR COLORADO

There's a big difference between bragging about reform and delivering it. While Congress congratulates itself on a job half-done, America's families and our finances remain at risk. 

This fight is not over. We need stiffer spines in Washington and stronger reform on Wall Street.