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Bennet's tale steeped in family roots
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| Contributor | Jason |
| Last Edited | Jason Jul 01, 2010 07:15pm |
| Category | General |
| News Date | Jan 24, 2009 12:05am |
| Description | In the thumbnail sketch of Michael Bennet created by sound bites after his controversial appointment to the U.S. Senate, he is the fair-haired son of privilege, an East Coast liberal who came to Colorado a mere decade ago and hop-scotched his way to political power.
While that depiction contains some truth, it lacks nuance, and Bennet chafes at being so narrowly defined.
"I don't accept the sort of cartoon description because . . . it's just not who I am," he said after a recent statewide tour in which he was coolly greeted by some rank-and-file Democrats in proudly blue-collar Pueblo.
Bennet, 44, has begun to publicly speak about his own family's story of struggle - about how his grandparents fled Warsaw after World War II and how his mother, not yet a teenager, was the only one who spoke English when they finally found their way to New York in 1950.
"It's not the same, but we share an immigrant experience," he told an audience in Alamosa, when asked his views on immigration.
He could, but does not, go into the more dramatic details: How his Jewish grandparents, imprisoned in the notorious Warsaw Ghetto, smuggled his mother - then a baby - out to the country through an underground network.
How his grandmother was able to escape with nuns and found refuge in their convent. |
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