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U.S. Senator · Colorado
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Michael Farrand Bennet was born on November 28, 1964, and is an American attorney and politician. He is a member of the Democratic Party and a United States senator from Colorado. In 1993, he received a Juris Doctor from Yale Law School.
He served as chief of staff to Denver mayor John Hickenlooper from 2003 to 2005. The Denver Board of Education chose him as superintendent of Denver Public Schools on June 27, 2005. Governor Bill Ritter appointed him to the Senate seat that Ken Salazar left in January 2009.
Voters elected him to the Senate in 2010 and reelected him in 2016 and 2022. On May 2, 2019, he announced his candidacy for the Democratic nomination for president. He left the race on February 11, 2020, after a poor showing in the New Hampshire primary.
In 2026, he ran for governor of Colorado but lost the Democratic primary to Phil Weiser. On October 26, 1997, he married attorney Susan Diane Daggett.
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Footnote Finds Credit Quality in a School District
Municipal desks would footnote June 27, 2005, the day a school board turned a City Hall aide into steward of a district's gym roofs, boilers and bond-funded cafeteria. Rating agencies, the note insists, had priced only bricks and never the lunch line's liquidity. Systemic risk was quietly reassigned to the bell schedule.
Founder Alarmed By Man Who Finished the Degree
At the founder's retreat everyone brags about dropping out, so news that a man received a Juris Doctor from Yale Law School in 1993 lands as radical disruption: he completed the thing. The founder, whose cohort ships prototypes instead of diplomas, drafts a manifesto called 'Graduation Is the New Pivot', then wonders who funds the sequel.
Partner Asks Which Round New Hampshire Was
Reading 'after a poor showing in the New Hampshire primary', a partner assumes demo day, then asks which primary round it was, who led it and why the secondary market is so thin. The associate drafts a pass memo. The only term sheet on file, she notes, appears to have been written in snow.
Trustee Memo: Variable Rates Fluctuated as Designed
TO: Trustees. RE: Denver school bond. Staff reviewed a 30-year, $750 million financial bond transaction with variable interest rates and notes that fluctuation, being designed, occurred. The transaction suffered when a bond insurer faltered. Staff recommends we avoid insurers of insurers, then asks which firm insures our monitor of the monitor, whose invoice arrived before the report.
Popcorn Warmers Offered as Unit of Grid Demand
Site engineers propose the Popcorn-Warmer Equivalent after reading he helped consolidate three movie theater chains into the Regal Entertainment Group. Three lobbies became one, yet by their count the lobby still drew three kettles of butter-lamp load. Our own three consolidated campuses merged into one name and still receive three separate utility bills, each estimating our lobby.
Evaluation Notes: Primary Result Is Out of Distribution
Appraisal: in 2026 the subject ran for governor and lost the Democratic primary to Phil Weiser. Contamination is unlikely, as ballots are not scraped from the open web. The result is out of distribution, interpretable only with caveats, and unaffected by compute. Safety team observes no capability jump, only a scoring rule nobody red-teamed.
Form 12 Demands Enthusiastic Dispassion From the Yearbook Office
Form 12 instructs the Yearbook Office to copy a White House drug-policy office that committed to be completely objective and dispassionate in its analysis of marijuana. Clerks tick the 'Dispassionate' box with such rousing unison applause that the form is voided for excess feeling. A replacement arrives with a smaller box and a footnote ordering everyone to remain neutral about the box.
Steward Reads Out a Two-Year Stint at the Hall
At the hall, Dolores reads out 'chief of staff to Denver mayor John Hickenlooper from 2003 to 2005' and the room goes quiet. 'Two years, no probation clause?' someone asks. 'Who covered his shift?' Dolores flips the clipboard. 'Nobody. That's what the title was for.' The kettle clicks off, and the job-description grievance form stays blank.
How to Seek a Bigger Job While Yours Is Piloted
Step one: study the senator who ran for governor of Colorado in 2026, seeking a new role while the old one was still on the books. Step two: ask HR which fallback office your severance package funds. Step three: when the retraining portal offers 'resilience' as a module, close the tab and request a chair.
Who Edits an Impromptu Speech Once It Becomes Canon?
If an impromptu 25-minute speech on the Senate floor can become a reference recording within hours, who owns the accidental one captured during our load-balancer outage? Who approved my coughing and tangents as the official onboarding module? And now that it is canon, may I correct the part where I was wrong, or must the wiki cite me as unrevisable?
Journal Editors and Junior Log Cleaners Share a Craft
He was editor-in-chief of the Yale Law Journal, a job of checking everyone else's footnotes for errors. Five years out, my title is Data Quality Associate, and I check everyone else's log lines for errors. The comparison is exact. One of us gets a masthead and a plaque; the other gets a ticket queue and a reminder that the queue is 'visibility'.
Record date: 2026-10-25 · Party: Democrat · Term: 2023-01-03 to 2029-01-03
url: https://www.bennet.senate.gov
phone: 202-224-5852
address: 261 Russell Senate Office Building Washington DC 20510
contact form: https://www.bennet.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/contact