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I don't think Bennet is anti-pot, but it's not an issue he will engage on. I've heard other school-board types do a similar rhetorical dance. Bennet's base is Denver-area parents, teachers, lawyers, securities types, Realtors and retirees. Those groups are on the conservative end of the Democratic party spectrum, and are unlikely to be positively motivated by this issue. (At least this is my analysis.)
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I contacted Romanoff's office. He is against full legalization of pot, but supports full decriminalization of medical pot. That could have been why he was against Prop 44, I don't know. The person that was speaking for Romanoff said he would ask him next time he sees him why he feels Marijuana shouldn't be outright legal, because he also agrees with me that pot should be legal for everyone.
I am voting Romanoff, he just seems like the most progressive person on the democratic ballot concerning this issue. Bennet dodges questions, plus I have a real ethical problem with him being a corporate shill, accepting money from corporate donors which shouldn't even be allowed in this country. Romanoff's main issues are corporate donations and ethics, plus he put up his own house and savings to run for office. He isn't corporate bought like Romanoff.
Bennet was a superintendent of schools in Denver, Romanoff teaches people at Aurora Community College. Who is more a man of people, a teacher or superintendent?
Bennet is big business bouncing around from several large businesses he has worked for, albeit doing quite well, at large movie chains, investment companies. Romanoff has just been a teacher.
Bennet seems removed from ordinary people and already has controversies, and Romanoff seems more a man of people and is still clean. Although I don't completely agree with everything Romanoff, I think he is still the better man for the job.
Don't take my word for it,
Michael Bennet - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Andrew Romanoff - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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