Romanoff goes all in, sells house and loans campaign $325,000 [View All]

[Hawkeye-X]

Source: Denver Post

Updated: Loan to campaign is $325,000.

Andrew Romanoff has officially gone all-in for his U.S. Senate campaign, selling his Washington Park house and loaning the effort $325,000.

Romanoff, the former Democratic speaker of the House in Colorado, sold the bungalow to a neighborhood developer. He’ll put the proceeds and cash from savings into his bid to unseat Sen. Michael Bennet in the Aug. 10 primary, a bid severely lagging Bennet’s $7.5 million fundraising total.

While political observers said they considered the loan a desperate move in an underfunded campaign, Romanoff described the move with the mixture of defiance and humor that has marked his underdog effort.

“I’m never home anyway,” said Romanoff, who has lived in Washington Park since the late 1990s. “Plenty of Americans are taking a lot bigger hit than me. I spend a lot of hours asking other people to do the same.”

Romanoff also couldn’t help using the opportunity for new digs at Bennet, who has received most of the party endorsements and more than $1.3 million in cash from PACs. Romanoff has sworn off all PAC money for his current campaign.

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This is it, people. We NEED Andrew in. He's sacrificing himself, while Bennet gets his campaign funding from out of state donors and lobbyist. I voted for him this morning via mail ballot.

If you wish to contribute money to help his campaign, do so at http://www.andrewromanoff.com

Hawkeye-X