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Long-time senator enjoys limelight as possible guv candidate
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| Last Edited | RBH Sep 03, 2007 10:47pm |
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| Media | Newspaper - Boston Globe |
| News Date | Tuesday, September 4, 2007 04:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | It's a long shot, teetering atop what some see as a fat chance. But state Sen. Vincent Illuzzi is enjoying the talk.
A run for governor, Sen.?
"There's no question it's flattering. I think it's very nice of people of different political walks of life to talk about me in terms of being able to lead the state. How can you not be flattered?" he said.
The speculation started this summer, when one of Vermont's leading Democrats, state Senate President Pro Tem Peter Shumlin, floated Illuzzi's name as a possible candidate to challenge three-term Gov. Jim Douglas next year.
No Democrat or Progressive has emerged yet as the standard-bearer for the left, in part because Douglas has refined his image as a moderate Republican.
Shumlin's semi-endorsement -- he says the veteran Republican lawmaker from the Northeast Kingdom is "one of a handful of candidates who could run a strong race against Jim Douglas" -- might be considered odd elsewhere.
In Vermont, where U.S. Sen. Jim Jeffords blazed the trail for apostate Republicans and Democrats last year didn't even field a candidate for U.S. Senate, it's not.
How likely is that this strange alchemy will take hold in the 2008 gubernatorial race? Illuzzi says not very.
"I think it's a very slim chance," Illuzzi said. "It's very slim." |
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