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Where is Andrew Romanoff?

February 22, 2009

Where is Andrew Romanoff seems to be the question floating around Colorado this past week. After all, this hopeless hopolophobe that is so deeply in bed with the purveyors of hatred from the mysandry wing of the Democrats surely had to be in line for a position with the obaminites. But? Nothing so far has come up on the political radar that I am aware of. Yet at least. Face the State addressed this missing person. Should the hate mongers put out an Amber Alert?

February 19, 2009

The Democrat golden boy who couldn’t go a day without seeing his name in the paper has suddenly fallen off the radar. Always thoughtful and quotable, it is no surprise he was the media’s go-to guy. It also helped that until getting term-limited last year, he was Speaker of the Colorado House.

The aftermath of the 2008 election was not kind to this Democrat. Overlooked for appointments to Secretary of State and the U.S. Senate, he has now now all but disappeared. While his named still makes it into the paper, it has lately been followed by “did not return calls for comment.” So we’re left asking: where is Andrew Romanoff?

Last week, the political publication Roll Call was first to report that Romanoff might challenge Colorado’s junior U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet. The story featured multiple Colorado-based sources, but a response from Romanoff was notably absent. This is not due to lack of trying, however, and the story included a quick note that read: “Romanoff could not be reached for comment Monday.”

Mike Saccone of the Grand Junction Daily Sentinel was next to pick up on the rumor. He too tried to get in touch with Romanoff before blogging about Romanoff’s potential Senate bid. “We’ve reached out to the former Denver state lawmaker and will update you if and when we hear back from him,” Saccone wrote. Yet no update followed.

Perhaps Romanoff didn’t want to comment on the rumor because he isn’t ready, but that’s not the only media query he is avoiding. The Denver Post’s Jessica Fender wrote a story over the weekend about term-limited lawmakers traveling on the state’s dime. Romanoff approved three of the four trips featured in the story. Being the diligent journalist she is, Fender called Romanoff for comment. According to her story, he didn’t call her back.

The last time Face The State saw Romanoff was at his going away party in early January at the Capitol. He told us he has completed law school at the University of Denver (finally!) and is looking forward to taking some time off. Fair enough.

Perhaps he’s just busy studying for the bar?

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Mysandry: The not so hidden agenda of the Obama

February 16, 2009

No love for the white guys

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February 11, 2009

By Jessica Peck Corry

February may be the month of love, but for white men, they certainly aren’t getting any. At least not from the Obama White House, congressional Democrats, or the economy.

As The New York Times recently reported, women are now on the verge of making up a majority of the American workforce. The reason: women are less likely to work in the fields hardest hit by the recession, including construction and manufacturing. Men have been the recipients of 82 percent of all layoffs since the recession started.

“Given how stark and concentrated the job losses are among men, and that women represented a high proportion of the labor force in the beginning of this recession, women are now bearing the burden — or the opportunity, one could say — of being breadwinners,” Heather Boushey, a senior economist at the Center for American Progress, told the Times.

The Times‘ report, based on government-issued jobs figures, is a far cry from the rhetoric pushed by President Barack Obama and his cabinet. As the media only briefly noted two weeks ago, Obama economic adviser Robert Reich told congressional Democrats that he believes government should ensure that job relief doesn’t just go to white guys.

“I am certain, as many of you are, that these jobs not simply go to high-skilled people who are already professionals or to white male construction workers…I have nothing against white male construction workers,” Reich told his audience. “Criteria can be set so that the money does go to others, the long term unemployed minorities, women, people who are not necessarily construction workers or high-skilled professionals.”

As it turns out, however, it’s the male construction workers who need the help the most these days. Women, more likely to work in publicly-funded health care or education jobs, are much less likely to see their jobs cut these days.

But not a peep of an apology, condemnation, or clarification has since come from Obama for the ignorant and bigoted assumptions made by Reich. The remarks, in fact, seemed to have inspired action by Democrats to push more social engineering in the form of gender and race-based job allocation.

Rep. Barnie Frank, a Massachusetts Democrat, is now proposing an amendment to H.R. 384 that would establish as part of the federal government’s Troubled Asset Relief Program an “Office of Minority and Women Inclusion.”

The office would fall under the Department of Treasury and would be required to “develop and implement standards and procedures to ensure, to the maximum extent possible, the inclusion and utilization of minorities [including women].”

And Frank isn’t alone. In a Jan. 27 Denver Post guest column, titled “Remember the Ladies,” freshman Congressman Jared Polis, D-Boulder, makes the case that government should not only fund infrastructure jobs as part of its economic recovery plan, but that it should also extend additional opportunities to women, who represent less than 10 percent of the construction workforce.

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