The inside story of how Bill Ritter picked Michael Bennet to serve in the U.S. Senate

The inside story of how Bill Ritter picked Michael Bennet to serve in the U.S. Senate

Given the high probability that Democrat Michael Bennet will handpick his successor in the U.S. Senate, we’ve been looking back at Bennet’s appointment to represent Colorado in Washington, D.C. Bennet was appointed to the Senate in 2009 by then-Gov. Bill Ritter to fill the seat vacated by Ken Salazar, who was tapped by President Barack Obama to be interior secretary. We sat down with Ritter and his then-chief of staff, Jim Carpenter, to hear the…