Why WH bribed Romanoff to end Senate race

In spite of the expected denials from the White House, we now know that Barack Obama's deputy chief of staff called Colorado House Speaker Andrew Romanoff in September 2009 to offer him one of three enumerated jobs if only he would drop out of the Democratic Senate primary.

Romanoff would have faced Senator Michael Bennet (pictured) who was appointed to fill the seat vacated when Ken Salazar was given the Secretary of the Interior cabinet post.

The question is why was Romanoff bribed.

In the case of the Spector-Sestak bribe, the answer is obvious: The Obama administration wanted the Pennsylvania senator to switch parties so that they would have a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate.

To persuade him to switch, the White House had to do its utmost to clear the field and assure him a safe path to the Senate nomination in his new political party.

The case of Michael Bennet in Colorado was different.

Having never been elected to a statewide position, he lacked a political base and was never a particularly strong candidate. He only got the Senate seat as an appointment to fill the seat vacated by Salazar.

So why was the Obama administration trying to clear the field for Bennet and assure him of the nomination? It was the passage of ObamaCare.

Bennet had been wavering on backing ObamaCare until soon after Romanoff was offered a job to drop out of the race.

It’s not only unethical, it’s illegal to bribe political candidates.

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