Press Releases

WASHINGTON – Republican National Committee (RNC) Chairman Michael Steele released the following statement tonight:

“Tonight the Washington establishment pulled out all the stops to drag Michael Bennet across the finish line, despite a wave of momentum against the failed policies of the Obama Administration.  Michael Bennet’s unquestioning support for Barack Obama’s big-government agenda during his short time in Washington has done nothing to improve the economy and create jobs in Colorado.  Barack Obama’s out-of-control spending, massive growth of government, and job-killing taxes, are stifling the private sector growth that we need to turn this economy around. 

“Michael Bennet owes his victory tonight to the establishment Democrats who went so far as to offer his only opponent an Administration position to lure him out of the race and clear the path for Bennet’s rubberstamp vote of the Obama agenda.  With unemployment stuck at 9.5 percent and the deficit skyrocketing out-of-control, the American people have lost confidence in this Administration’s ability to get people back to work. The people of Colorado deserve a Senator who will stand up to the Obama Administration and reverse these harmful policies slowing our recovery, not another hand-picked successor who will be a reliable vote for endless spending and higher taxes.”