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Obama offered jobs to potential Senate challengers…twice

Most of you know that B.O.’s Chicagoland cronies offered Sestak a job in order to keep him from challenging Arlen Specter in the PA Dem primary.  If true, that’s a crime.

Well, lightning sometimes strikes twice: he did the same thing in Colorado.  From the AP:

The Obama administration dangled the possibility of a government job for former Colorado House Speaker Andrew Romanoff last year in hopes he would forgo a challenge to Democratic Sen. Michael Bennet, officials said Wednesday, just days after the White House admitted orchestrating a job offer in the Pennsylvania Senate race.

These officials declined to specify the job that was floated or the name of the administration official who approached Romanoff, and said no formal offer was ever made. They spoke on condition of anonymity, saying they were not cleared to discuss private conversations.

“Mr. Romanoff was recommended to the White House from Democrats in Colorado for a position in the administration,” White House deputy press secretary Bill Burton said. “There were some initial conversations with him but no job was ever offered.”

I’m sure it’s just a really big coinkidink that not one, but two, Senate primary challengers were offered positions within the administration.

June 3, 2010 - Posted by crushliberalism | corruption, Obama