White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said Thursday morning — in an e-mail to reporters at 6:25 a.m. — that Colorado Senate candidate Andrew Romanoff had applied for a job at USAID prior to being contacted by a top administration official to see if he was still interested in the job.
It is the second time in a week that the White House has been forced to respond to news reports and statements by Democratic politicians that they tried to cut back room political deals.
But unlike last Friday’s carefully coordinated release of a memo from the White House Counsel’s office followed by a statement from Rep. Joe Sestak about what post he was offered to stay out of the race in Pennsylvania, the administration comment about the Romanoff affair was hurried and did not appear coordinated with Romanoff or his campaign.
Sestak, of course, is now the Democratic nominee in Pennsylvania since the primary has been held, so he has more incentive to work with the White House, while Romanoff remains a challenger to incumbent Sen. Michael Bennet of Colorado.
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