Former Governor of Colorado John Hickenlooper (D), and current Senate hopeful, was up to his old habits on Friday during a virtual happy hour with Denver Beer Company:
We're having a great time talking beer and reminiscing on my Wynkoop days! Tune in now! @DenverBeerCo https://t.co/MBs7fYiA0d
— John Hickenlooper (@Hickenlooper) April 24, 2020
Gov. Hickenlooper answered questions from viewers in what was supposed to be a fun event for voters, until he offered a degrading comment about a woman whom he hopes to be colleagues with come November.
A viewer asked Hickenlooper which senators, one Republican and one Democrat, whom he would like to have a beer with. After approximately 30 seconds of fumbling, in an attempt to remember her name, Gov. Hickenlooper had this to say of Senator Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ):
“Who’s the woman who just got elected Senator in Arizona? I can’t think of her name. She’s breathtaking.”
This distasteful comment is not the first instance of Gov. Hickenlooper making creepy remarks. In 2012, during his tenure as Governor of Colorado, Hickenlooper introduced his Lieutenant Governor as a “rising sex star,” to a group of children:
"Now I get to introduce that rising sex star...Symbol, I mean. Symbol. Not star."
Most recently, during his short-lived run for president, Hickenlooper admitted to seeing an X-rated movie in theaters with his mother, named “Deep Throat:”
Hickenlooper’s abject comment about Sen. Sinema only adds to the growing pile of problems for the Senate hopeful, including ethics complaints filed against him, racially insensitive comments, anger toward young voters and fundraising off of COVID-19. Colorado’s Senate race currently sits at a “lean Democratic” rating, but Hickenlooper still faces the state’s primary in June, and his most competitive primary opponent recently beat him in Colorado’s Democratic caucus vote:
BREAKING: Our grassroots campaign just crushed the DC machine & won today’s caucuses! The powerbrokers & party bosses in Washington didn’t get the memo, but it turns out a lot of people in CO want to replace @CoryGardner with a progressive champion. Thank you! #cosen #copolitics pic.twitter.com/pXNW9FHf6S
— Andrew Romanoff (@Romanoff2020) March 8, 2020
The primary is set for June 30th.
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