Michael Bennet: “I want to be brief, but I would like to briefly say something that might be an odd thing for the Senator from Colorado…”

“I want to be brief, but I would like to briefly say something that might be an odd thing for the Senator from Colorado to say, which is how grateful I am to the people of Ohio for sending Sherrod Brown to the U.S. Senate for all of these years and how much I wish that you had sent him back one more time. I say that in part because I once lived in Ohio and was a young person there, learning something about politics in the late eighties and early nineties. Sherrod Brown was my secretary of state. He was the same person then that he is today in all the important ways and a progressive voice for the people of Ohio. It was an amazing thing for me to come to this place and meet Sherrod as a fellow Senator and to sit in that chair and preside, while Sherrod stood--I don't remember when that was, when it would have been; Barack Obama probably was in the early days of his Presidency--and listen to the names of cities and towns all across Ohio ricochet around the marble Chamber that we are in with such joy because I had been to those places myself.…”