Governor John Hickenlooper (D-CO) On Being Vetted for VP By Hillary Clinton
“It was intense, long, arduous. They collect everything you have ever written, everything written about you, every speech you have ever given, they get all your financial information for the last 10 years, they want to know who your partners were, did anybody ever lose money on one of your business deals.”
—Governor Hickenlooper on being vetted by Hillary Clinton for Vice President
John Hickenlooper, Governor of Colorado & Author of “My Opposite of Woe: My Life in Beer and Politics”, stopped by Kilmeade & Friends in Philadelphia to recap the Democrat convention so far, preview his keynote speech and give a behind-the-scenes look into what it was like to be vetted as a potential vice presidential pick for Hillary Clinton.
Plus, Hickenlooper explains why he feels running a business and running a government are completely different.
Listen here:
give you a mission statement?
(HICKENLOOPER) No, they wrote a speech up, they drafted out something that I wasn’t comfortable with so we pretty much wrote our own speech. Then we worked with some speech writers who wor with the convention trying to get things right. They have been great, really smart to work with. I wanted more humor, the guys are funny. You have got to have a little humor. I wanted to talk more from the business perspective of how a small business person looks at Hillary Clinton and what stuff we talked about when I was being vetted. That was one of the best parts of being vetted for #2, I got to spend several hours either one on one or with Hillary & John Pedesta really talking about policy.
