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| Last Edited | The Sunset Provision Jan 01, 2008 02:33pm |
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| Media | Newspaper - Casper Star Tribune |
| News Date | Tuesday, January 1, 2008 08:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | With both U.S. Senate seats up for election in 2008 for the first time in Wyoming history, the two contests should be electrifying.
But they may turn out to be snoozers.
So far no candidate of either party has emerged to challenge Republican U.S. Sens. Mike Enzi or John Barrasso.
Barrasso was appointed by Democratic Gov. Dave Freudenthal to fill out the unexpired term of Sen. Craig Thomas, who died of leukemia last spring. Since then the retired orthopedic surgeon from Casper has been campaigning relentlessly around the state.
Because of his newness on the job, he is considered more vulnerable than Enzi, the state's senior senator who was first elected in 1996.
Wyoming Republicans, meanwhile, will kick off the 2008 election season on Saturday, when they hold their county conventions to begin the presidential delegate selection process. The early primary has attracted five presidential candidates to the state, including front-runner Mitt Romney, who has been here twice.
The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee has been searching vigorously for candidates for the two U.S. Senate seats but so far with no luck, Wyoming Democrats say.
The Democratic big guns tried to recruit Paul Hickey, a Cheyenne lawyer, who lost the 2002 gubernatorial primary to Freudenthal.
Hickey said he received several calls in recent months from Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada, Senate Minority Whip Charles Schumer of New York, and J. B. Poersch, executive director of the DSCC.
"They've been persistent," Hickey said Monday in a telephone interview. "I'm more than content with the wonderful law practice I have and the family responsibilities and opportunities. My private life is where I will be in 2008."
The Democratic officials said they are looking for electable Democrats and Freudenthal referred them to Hickey.
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