Campaign fatigue
Scott Brown won’t run for Senate
By Sean Sullivan, WashPost, Updated: February 1, 2013
Former Massachusetts Republican senator Scott Brown announced Friday that he will not run in the special election for outgoing Democratic Sen. John Kerry’s seat. Brown’s decision means Kerry’s seat is likely to remain in Democratic hands.
“…I was not at all certain that a third Senate campaign in less than four years, and the prospect of returning to a Congress even more partisan than the one I left, was really the best way for me to continue in public service at this time,” Brown said in a statement. “And I know it’s not the only way for me to advance the ideals and causes that matter most to me.
“That is why I am announcing today that I will not be a candidate for the United States Senate in the upcoming special election.”
Early polls suggested Brown, who remains personally popular in deep-blue Massachusetts despite his party affiliation, would have started with a lead on either Rep. Ed Markey (D) or Rep. Stephen Lynch (D). One poll even put him ahead of Markey, the Democratic favorite, by 22 points.
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Former Massachusetts Republican senator Scott Brown announced Friday that he will not run in the special election for outgoing Democratic Sen. John Kerry’s seat. Brown’s decision means Kerry’s seat is likely to remain in Democratic hands.
“…I was not at all certain that a third Senate campaign in less than four years, and the prospect of returning to a Congress even more partisan than the one I left, was really the best way for me to continue in public service at this time,” Brown said in a statement. “And I know it’s not the only way for me to advance the ideals and causes that matter most to me.
“That is why I am announcing today that I will not be a candidate for the United States Senate in the upcoming special election.”
Early polls suggested Brown, who remains personally popular in deep-blue Massachusetts despite his party affiliation, would have started with a lead on either Rep. Ed Markey (D) or Rep. Stephen Lynch (D). One poll even put him ahead of Markey, the Democratic favorite, by 22 points.
(More here.)
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Scott Brown : "the prospect of returning to a Congress even more partisan than the one I left"
Hmmmm ... considering that the MN-GOP is looking for a challenger to Al Franken, the words of their 2006 nominee, Mark Kennedy, has relevance :
“When you have folks agitating on either side — whether it be tea party on the right or the redistributionist Occupy folks on the left — they just make the challenge of getting to yes and the 60 votes in the Senate even harder for politicians”.
When asked after his presentation if prominent tea party leader and Kennedy’s successor in Minnesota’s 6th District, Rep. Michele Bachmann, was part of his critique, Kennedy said he didn’t wish to comment on Bachmann.
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