Colorado Democrat Andrew Romanoff is having trouble raising money for his Senate primary campaign against Sen. Michael Bennet, so he decided to go the “desperate homeless man making bad decisions” route, as he sold his house and gave to his campaign the $325,000 he got out of it. “I’m never home anyway,” Romanoff said. And you will never be home ever again, Romanoff, as you will spend the rest of your days turning tricks in seedy Colorado ski resorts after you lose.
“I’d like to create a democracy where you don’t have to sell your house to win the U.S. Senate, but we’re not there yet,” he said.
Well, crazy, we are a democracy where you don’t have to sell your house to win the U.S. Senate. Do you see Alvin Greene selling off his assets (three t-shirts, a pair of shorts, a pair of shoes, and a suit)? No. And you have raised millions more dollars than he has. Learn to live within your means!
“I expect to win and repay the loan. I happen to believe Americans of modest means deserve representation, too.”
Yes, sure, “Americans of modest means,” whatever, but you didn’t have to become homeless. Even Alvin Greene has shelter.
This cannot end well. Are the voters supposed to trust his financial decisions now? “Oh, I’ll just sell my house so I can buy a few more teevee ads. That’s a sound budgetary decision.” It would be terrible for us suddenly to have a U.S. Senator who can’t balance a budget. [Denver Post]
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Can Colorado really trust a person who hasn’t raped, stolen, pillaged and lied his way through the US economy? All the other rich bastards in the Senate would laugh at him and call him names, you know.
Not the first time a Romanoff lost everything to the Reds… I mean GOPers.
If he shows up to the Beck/Palin gun-fest in DC, he can get a taste of what the other Romanoffs got.
Chris Farley, etc etc.
Wait until he finds out he can’t even vote for himself because he doesn’t have a permanent residence; there goes his electoral base.
The real problem is the real estate market. If prices were up, he could sell his house and afford to lose TWO Senate campaigns.
i’m so glad we live in a democracy in which anyone can run for office provided they have so much money that people who sell everything they own will still have absolutely no chance of beating them.
If he wins, will Tancredo put a contract out on that nice young man?
I wonder if his family supported the sale?
So is this where we are? Has Alvin Greene become the “at least” guy of politics?
In fairness, Rasputin would have told him to sell the house and buy hookers and coke. This Romanoff is only half-listening.
No job, and now no house. I’d feel sorry for the guy, if he didn’t just run for the Senate seat in the first place to try and extort a job from either the administration or Colorado Governor:
http://wonkette.com/415778/andrew-romanoff-angrily-demanding-jobs-from-everyone#more-415778
He could borrow Patty Murray’s tennis shoes and go walkin’ instead wasting all that money on gas for that van. Dan Walker pulled that stunt some years back an won the Governator of Illinois. Walker ended up walking his way to the big house, so like highs, not all walks are good walks.
Nice van. I bet the house he did sell had a deep, rock-lined hole in the basement.
Put some fukkin Truck Nutz on the jalopy.
I expect to win and repay the loan
Is he going to skim off a defense contractor? Cuz I know this guy on Long Island, see…
He has an undergraduate degree from Yale and a master’s from Harvard. Loser. If he had gone to Wharton or MIT his house would have been worth $3.5 million. At least that’s what Republicans keep telling me when I bitch about being a hobo. It’s my fault because I chose the wrong degree program.
Also, too, he must have sold his first name. It used to be Harlan.
[re=626623]Buzz Feedback[/re]: No kidding. Saw a Ford Expedition last night sporting TruckNutz AND a cowbell on the trailer hitch.
[re=626637]Jukesgrrl[/re]: The dude’s last name is “Romanoff” — of course he’d just cold go hobo and start wanderin’ the fuck around.
Way to bindlestick it to “the Man”, Andy!
Well, this certainly establishes his fiscal and budgetary sense for me. The ‘I will win and pay it back’ plan always works.
Hey, Lindsay will be out of jail in a couple of weeks. He could DATE HER! That would get him some more valuable “press.” Paparazzi following him everywhere! Am I a genius, or what? Harlan … I mean Andrew … how about me as your campaign manager? I work cheap and I’m available to start immediately.
$325,000 house is an American of modest means???? Maybe in D.C., but not anywhere else. His WalMart buddies are going to think he’s an elitist, latte-drinking, sushi-having, librul.
[re=626649]MOG[/re]: In my neck of the woods $325K gets you about 4500 sq ft … or 3000 sq ft with an acre of property for the pistol/mortar range.
[re=626649]MOG[/re]: No kidding; in this neck of the woods (No. Va), that is a smallish condo, but drive southwest a few hours, and you have a mansion.
[re=626644]Extemporanus[/re]: And this has been another edition of “How to Look Like an Idiot by Not Reading the Hanger Headline Before Commenting”.
Feel free to eat my beans, Jack — I ain’t done earned ‘em.
[re=626653]Buzz Feedback[/re]: the woods has lots of necks.
Hey, I just noticed his campaign slogan: “A Senator for the Rest of Us!”
Andrew Romanoff is an aluminum pol?!
[re=626649]MOG[/re]: [re=626649]MOG[/re]: Here in C’Addle $325K will get you about 1250 SFT, say a modestly-sized olde house or new townhouse.
[re=626678]Extemporanus[/re]: I see what you did there…
Meet Obama’s new housing czar
How will he cook his famous Noodles Romaoff without a kitchen!? Maybe he knows
how to use a hobo stove (campfire)?
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