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Herb Kohl Should Bow Out for Feingold, And Let’s Not Fetishize Businessmen
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| Contributor | Homegrown Democrat |
| Last Edited | Homegrown Democrat Nov 08, 2010 07:17pm |
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| Category | Editorial |
| Author | Matthew Rothschild |
| News Date | Monday, November 8, 2010 01:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Wisconsin Sen. Herb Kohl should give it up.
The upstanding 75-year-old Milwaukeean has been a reliable, if unnoticeable, Senator for the last 22 years.
He’s done a lot for children and the elderly in the Senate, expanding child nutrition programs and school breakfasts, backing Medicare and pushing for better prescription drug coverage, as well increasing money for nursing home inspections.
But he is getting up there, and he needs to decide soon whether he’ll run for reelection in 2012. If he chooses not to, which I hope he’ll do, that would pave the way for Russ Feingold to return to the Senate.
Many progressives in Wisconsin—and across the country—mourn the loss of Feingold and want to get him back into public life as quickly as possible, believing that we need his courageous voice.
Some suggest that he should challenge Barack Obama in the primaries. But that seems more quixotic than running against him last time would have been, and this time it would be perceived by many as divisive. Plus, losing a Senate race is not exactly a trampoline for vaulting into the Presidential ring. |
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