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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