Ames, Iowa – Although they share Colorado as a backdrop, John Hickenlooper said it would be wrong to push the idea that he and Michael Bennet are one and the same.
“I’m not going to try and point out where I’m better than he is, or where he’s not sufficient,” Colorado’s former governor said of the state’s current Democratic Senator. “But we have different world views and different experiences ... we’re two distinct voices trying to make sense out of how do you bring this country back in the right direction, back together.”
As fate – or some mischievous schedulers – would have it, both men found themselves stumping in Iowa over the weekend, spreading a gospel borne of accomplishments achieved in the shadow of the Rocky Mountains. Every boast of methane regulations, each “Gang of Eight” nod to immigration reform was met with applause and admiring gazes by audiences that are admittedly desperate to change the status quo in the White House.
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