Former Colorado House Speaker Andrew Romanoff tells The Denver Post that he was offered three paying jobs (one requiring Senate confirmation) by the Obama White House in exchange for not running against appointed U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet in this year’s Democratic primary. (The Post story also includes a link to the e-mail that Deputy Chief of Staff Jim Messina sent Romanoff last fall.)
As Time’s Mark Helperin points out,
This case seems potentially more serious than the [Rep. Joe] Sestak matter for at least three reasons: the dangler was a government official and not a private citizen/intermediary; the jobs dangled were paid positions (unlike the unpaid advisory slot dangled to Sestak); and Romanoff is not obviously as qualified for these jobs as Sestak was for the position discussed with him.
(HT: The Campaign Spot’s Jim Geraghty.)
