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Feingold says he's weighing a Senate run and expects to decide this summer
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| Last Edited | Craverguy Jun 03, 2011 10:45am |
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| Author | Craig Gilbert |
| Media | Newspaper - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel |
| News Date | Thursday, June 2, 2011 04:30:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Democrat Russ Feingold said in an interview Thursday that he plans to decide by Labor Day whether to run for the U.S. Senate seat now held by his longtime colleague Herb Kohl.
“I am looking at it, but I feel I should take some time to think this through,” said Feingold, the former senator who was defeated last fall for re-election after three terms. “For me the question right now is whether it’s a good idea for me to go back into this sort of life.”
After spending 28 years in the Wisconsin Legislature and U.S. Senate, Feingold called his break from politics “a healthy one for me to be doing something different at this point in my life.”
Feingold said he has been approached by Democrats in Wisconsin about running either for Senate or for governor. Republican Gov. Scott Walker isn’t up for re-election until 2014, though Democrats may try force a recall election next year. The Senate seat will be open because Kohl, a four-term Democrat, plans to retire after 2012. Feingold has had little to say until now about his potential interest in the seat.
Asked which of those two jobs -- senator or governor -- held more interest for him, Feingold said “I don’t have any specific thoughts about the different offices.” He said his first decision is whether he wants to be a political candidate again, when “not being in office has certain appeals to it.”
Said Feingold: “I’m not down to the level of which office or when, but I realize I have to come to grips with whether I would be a candidate for Senate in 2012 in the reasonably near future.”
Feingold said he would be attending the state Democratic convention in Milwaukee this weekend, but said he declined an offer from the state party to speak, since speaking slots typically go to office-holders and announced candidates. |
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