Colorado Independent » Bennet engages religious leaders in health-care debate.
A friend tells me she has seen commercials for Senator Michael Bennet on Channel 7 in which he comes out, at last, against the public option for healthcare. This isn't even single payer; it's only public option, and a Democrat can't support it? He's not going to get behind the one of the key items in the President's agenda? I'm going to look for verification before I decide, but if she's right, a lot of people, including me, will be very unhappy.
Here's is one person who clearly will be upset, based on his actions at the Metro Organization for People session with Bennet on July 2nd:
The video is a little chaotic, but in that it probably does a good job of reflecting what it's reporting.
Yesterday I got a letter in the mail from Bennet (a form letter with my name inserted, of course) in which he thanked me for writing to him in support of the Employee Free Choice Act. I wrote him a couple of months ago, IIRC. He went on to do a lot of waffling back and forth over the line between supporting or not supporting the EFCA. He never took an unequivocal stand one way or the other, but I think he made it clear that at the end of the day he will have waffled himself into alignment with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the GOP.
All this from someone ColoradoPols.com still considers a strong favorite in 2010?
When Governor Ritter (no progressive, either, it's now completely clear) appointed Bennet to take Ken Salazar's place in the Senate when Salazar became Secretary of the Interior, I was wary and uncertain about Bennet, but inclined to give him the benefit of my uncertainty. Gradually, though, I'm becoming less and less uncertain, and it isn't resolving itself in Bennet's favor. It makes me begin to wonder if there's someone out there who will stand up for Democratic values and who would be willing and able to take him on in the primary next year.
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