CO-SEN: Six women seeking Colorado Senate seat ask DSCC to reconsider endorsement of Hickenlooper

[RandySF]

Six women seeking the Democratic nomination for a Senate seat from Colorado are calling on the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee to reconsider its endorsement of former Colorado governor John Hickenlooper, who joined the crowded primary field last week after dropping out of the presidential race.

In a letter timed Monday to coincide with Women’s Equality Day, the women suggested that gender was a factor in the DSCC’s decision to back Hickenlooper and accused the national organization of trying to stage “a coronation.”

“All of us, like many women in Colorado and across the country, have seen well-qualified women passed over for male candidates in the workplace time and again,” they wrote. “Those of us who have run for office before have been told to ‘wait our turn’ and ‘don’t rock the boat’ more times than we care to mention. Now, the DSCC, by its endorsement, is implying that we should defer to a male candidate because you seem to believe he is ‘more electable.’ Colorado has never had a woman United States Senator and one has to wonder if circumstances such as this have contributed to that unfortunate outcome.”

The letter is signed by candidates Diana Bray, Lorena Garcia, Alice Madden, Stephany Rose Spaulding, Michelle Ferrigno and Warren Angela Williams.

In a statement, DSCC spokeswoman Lauren Passalacqua called Hickenlooper “far and away the strongest candidate” to defeat Sen. Cory Cardner (R-Colo.) next year, adding: “We’re proud to support him in his run for Senate.”

A recent poll conducted by Garin-Hart-Yang Research Group for an unnamed national organization showed Hickenlooper with a massive lead in a potential Democratic Senate primary, favored by 61 percent of likely voters. The nearest rival came in at 10 percent.




https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/six-women-seeking-colorado-senate-seat-ask-dscc-to-reconsider-endorsement-of-hickenlooper/2019/08/27/89feff52-c8e4-11e9-a1fe-ca46e8d573c0_story.html

[hlthe2b]

1. I want CO to have a woman Senator. I want Corey Gardner GONE.

It feels like an impossible choice, but taking the Senate seat is paramount. Right now, none of the women has sufficient name recognition and without DSCC support, that is unlikely to change.

I feel as though Hickenlooper is a strong candidate against Gardner--probably the strongest.

Nothing about this feels fair, but damn, we need that seat. It is a shitty situation for those women candidates and for all of us who want to see them succeed.

[RandySF]

2. I was ready to support Jena Griswold if she got in.

[Trenzalore]

3. I don't know why they put their fingers on the scale

He will win a primary in a landslide an most likely a general. It would be smarter if they stayed silent.

[SharonAnn]

4. It's really unfortunate, but I do think Hickenlooper would win.