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CO-Gov: Salazar Won't Run, Will Back Hickenlooper

by: Crisitunity

Thu Jan 07, 2010 at 12:57 PM EST


If you can bear to look at Chris Cillizza's Twitter background wallpaper, he has a rather important message up:

Ken Salazar will not run for gov of Colorado...will back Denver Mayor Hickenlooper...

We'll update as more information becomes available. (UPDATE: Here's Salazar's statement regarding Hickenlooper:)

"Colorado needs a strong, experienced leader with optimism and new ideas for carrying our state forward. That is why I am endorsing John Hickenlooper for governor of Colorado," Salazar said in a statement. "John Hickenlooper is a uniter. He transcends political and geographic divides to bring people together to develop solutions. If he decides to run, he will make an excellent governor for the state of Colorado."

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CO-Gov: Salazar Won't Run, Will Back Hickenlooper | 30 comments
CO
Sweet, hopefully this means Hickenlooper is 100% running, if so very good news.

29/D/Male/NY-01
I'm glad to hear you say it
Wow, Tekzilla is not negative about D chances everywhere!
[ Parent ]
That's good.

Superb
That Twitter wallpaper, not so much.  

Independent Socialist & Chair of SSP Cranky Indianian Hoosier Caucus, IN-09
Yeah
What is that all about?
[ Parent ]
hate that wallpaper

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I just dont like Cilliza, period
I stopped reading The Line because just about any one of us could do better than he could.  Highlighting Portman in OH while saying he has some crappy tier 2 candidates.  Um, they've been elected statewide before, Portman has not.  

He just all around sucks at his job.

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He's as good as anyone else in his profession.
Just because you don't like one comment about one race in one year, that is not enough to pass that harsh a judgement on. Plus, it remains to be seen how good Portman's opponents are.  
[ Parent ]
Oh that's just one example
and was the one that made me go, Im done paying attention to him at all.  I read entirely too many Lines with entirely too many stupid narratives like the one I exampled for me to take him seriously anymore.  Didnt help that when I emailed a college prof about him, she said he rarely seems to know what he is talking about.

Although, I havent really read much else of his save for The Line.

[ Parent ]
Great News
Hickenlooper is the type of candidate we need to win this one. Usually when running for governor, especially this year, I think it is better to avoid candidates with DC ties.
was hoping for some good news here
Now let's see a poll that's not a 1-day Rasmussen.
R2K is coming
[ Parent ]
Ah Well
That's unfortunate, I really like Salazar.

Hickenlooper is very liberal, isn't he? For some reason I keep thinking he is. Is there another big city (or recently former) mayor with a somewhat similar name?

According to this article he seems like he's more of the DLC type: http://www.dlc.org/ndol_ci.cfm...

I see he's part of the Mayors Against Illegal Guns Coalition.
It might play well in the big city, but how will that play in Colorado as a whole?  

Hickenlooper is a prototype New Democrat
and that is the kind of Democrat who sweeps the suburbs and wins states like Colorado.  

I see he's part of the Mayors Against Illegal Guns Coalition.
It might play well in the big city, but how will that play in Colorado as a whole?  

Just fine.  Bill Ritter was the Denver DA and was pro-gun safety as well.  Gun nut extremists will vote against Hickenlooper, but they would have anyway even if Hickenlooper was the President of the NRA.

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That's a plus...
It's good if Hichenlooper doesn't pull a Deeds and pander to the right as far as he can.
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New Democrat? You sure on that one?
This is, after all, a politician that David Sirota likes...And by all accounts, he is rather liberal, which is just fine with me.  Honestly, I think his brand of liberalism will help more in Colorado than it will hurt.  Ritter, after all, has shown that a mediocre Democrat is a no go here.

http://www.bluearkansasblog.com
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Read the article above
linked by Rural Dem.  

http://www.dlc.org/ndol_ci.cfm...

This guy is a complete New Democrat.  Now many New Democrats are 80-90% liberal, but they tend to be pretty pro-business (although less so than the supposedly populist Blue Dogs).

Hickenlooper was also pretty disliked by unions, although almost any Democrat is an improvement over the strident anti-labor Bill Ritter who has basically been indifferent from a Republican on labor issues.

I would certainly classify him as a New Democrat.  And New Democrats usually clean up in the suburbs.  

[ Parent ]
LOL
Cause Sirota knows how to pick 'em lol

$100 says Sirota will be pissing all over Governor Hickenlooper in a year.

[ Parent ]
Easy to defend
Just over-emphasise the 'illegal' bit. Not only can you halfway trick the hard-right into thinking he just wants to keep guns away from illegal immigrants, but moderate voters can be convinced it's a sign that he's tough on crime.
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Wait a second, can Salazar do that?
As a cabinet official, can he openly endorse a candidate for public office?  I thought that was considered unethical.

http://www.bluearkansasblog.com
Why would it be unethical?
He's a political appointee who is endorsing someone either of his own accord or with the White House's blessing (probably the latter). He's not a nonpartisan official like a judge would be.

Politics and Other Random Topics

24, Male, Democrat, NM-01, Chairman of the Atheist Caucus, and Majority Leader of the "Going to Hell" caucus!

[ Parent ]
tradition
I think it is a tradition that someone involved in foreign policy does not get involved in partisan politics (secs of state and defense).

Libertarian secular Republican, MO-7
[ Parent ]
Yeah, there was that one thing with Ellen Tauscher
for endorsing that one state senator for her congressional seat.  She got told she had to stop endorsing him and have him remove that information because it is quite frowned upon at the Pentagon or whatever.

This makes a lot more sense.

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Yup, it's why SecArmy John McHugh didn't
endorse a successor in NY-23.
[ Parent ]
???
What does the Secretary of the Interior do with regards to foreign policy?  

23, Male, Democrat, OH-13
[ Parent ]
Nothing
AC1 was pointing out where it is a no-no to endorse. At least I read it that way.
[ Parent ]
Nothing, therefore it is OK to endorse..
but HR Clinton, for example, would be a different story.  
[ Parent ]
Nothing
That's the point, and why it's okay for him to be endorsing.

Male, 23, DC-At Large
[ Parent ]
Um, am I the only one who notices how weird this is???......
Does no one else notice that Ken Salazar has explicitly endorsed the candidacy of a man who has not declared any candidacy?

All Hickenlooper publicly has said is that he would give Ken Salazar the right of first refusal.

Yeah, I know, this probably just signals that Hickenlooper is in, and that he's told Ken that explicitly.

But it's still contrary to protocol, I've never seen anything like this before.

43, male, Indian-American, Democrat, VA-10

Great news, if only for the plain English being spoker
Hickenlooper said he'd defer to Salazar yesterday.
Salazar doesn't choose to run and endoreses a Hickenlooper candidacy.
All done within 48 hours.

Maybe Democrats can learn to move faster than molasses.

Except for Dorgan, this has been an awesome week.  Just to be a broken record about it, Democratic chances in 2010 are not good with bad candidates and are great with good candidates.

Even the Colorado senate race now looks better, with two candidates set to prove themselves to the voters, with a strong candidate in the Gov race to partner with.  I'd rather hace Hick in the Senate race, but this will do.

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