The details behind the Bennet story

A day after Gretchen Morgenson’s 3,000-word story in the New York Times questioned Colorado Sen. Michael Bennet’s financial stewardship of the Denver Public Schools when he was its superintendent, the story’s key source went on the record in the local press saying she had pitched the story to Morgenson.

What Morgenson didn’t report, but the Denver Post pointed out, was that the source, Jeannie Kaplan, was a well-known supporter of and fundraiser for Bennet’s opponent in Tuesday’s Democratic Senate primary, Andrew Romanoff.   – More -