Apparently 2010 Senate seat contender and former Colorado speaker of the House Andrew Romanoff is getting some help from some of President Obama’s campaign field directors:
New Partners specializes in grassroots outreach and is informally helping Romanoff get his campaign off the ground, said the former state House speaker, declining to give more detail.
Among the high-profile partners are Dave Hamrick, a former field strategist for then-presidential candidate Barack Obama in the battleground states of Michigan and Pennsylvania, and Paul Tewes, renowned for his primary work for Obama in Iowa.
On other fronts, Romanoff’s campaign has been less-than-traditional, most notably for lack of a designated campaign manager.
And while busy at house meetings and multiple local events, Romanoff’s relatively low profile has nonetheless led to speculation about the health of the 11-week-old campaign among the chattering class.
The introduction of New Partners should tamp down some of that, said Denver Democratic political consultant Steve Welchert. “That’s got a huge impact,” he said. “These are serious guys. Tewes ran Iowa for Obama; he’s an organizational magician.”
New Partners provides a range of services from recruiting a campaign team to motivating people to volunteer and vote. It also consults on fundraising and online outreach and provides research for polling, talking points and strategic planning, according to the firm’s website. Hamrick, the consultant working most closely with the campaign, declined to comment for this report.
This is somewhat odd because hasn’t Obama already backed Romanoff’s opponent, Sen. Michael Bennett, D-Colo.? Maybe in the Obama camp it doesn’t matter who wins the seat, so long as it’s a Democrat.
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What happened to “The Nation”?
Wasn’t that one of the “national publications”?
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