Florida GOP Seeking a Challenger
Mark Foley (R), who ran briefly for Senate in 2004 and holds the door open to another run next year, expressed doubt that any of the three would be wooed into the Senate race.
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Mark Foley (R), who ran briefly for Senate in 2004 and holds the door open to another run next year, expressed doubt that any of the three would be wooed into the Senate race.
Paul Sarbanes (D-Md.), who announced Friday he would not seek re-election in 2006. Since then, Hoyer’s colleagues in the Free State Congressional delegation have been in a whirlwind of activity.
Previously, Haskins worked as the 2004 campaign field director for Udall’s re-election campaign.
Mayor Michael Bloomberg (R), who is up for re-election this year, wants to build the new stadium over the railyards to lure the New York Jets, who have played in New Jersey for the past two decades
Former NAACP President Kweisi Mfume became the first candidate out of the gate in the newly open 2006 Maryland Senate race, announcing he would seek the Democratic nomination this morning.
The state Senate is expected to take up the newly proposed Congressional map today, moving Georgia Republicans another step closer to completing a rare mid-decade re-redistricting.
But Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) recently urged Democratic Senators to contribute to Byrd’s re-election.
Allen easily won re-election last year in his race for the 1st district seat, which covers southern Maine.
re-election.
The last Senate vacancy in Maryland came a generation ago, in 1986. In that race, two Members of Congress and a sitting governor competed in the Democratic Senate primary, with then-Rep.
Michael Steele (R) into the race, though he is known to prefer to run for re-election in 2006 and for governor four years later.
Only House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer (D) appears to be not eyeing the Senate race at this point.
Elijah Cummings (D-Md.), one of the House Members thinking of running for Senate.
The departures come two years after then-Senate Judiciary Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) convinced business and insurance lobbyists to unite behind the trust fund approach, despite prior divisions
Just prior to that, on the Senate floor, Stevens said he was “near depressive” over Congress not keeping its promise under the 1980 Lands Act to open ANWR to drilling.
Lynn Westmoreland (R-Ga.), who has led the re-redistricting charge from within the state’s GOP delegation, issued a statement calling the bill’s passage “a great day for the people of Georgia.”
(D-Tenn.) hasn’t yet formally announced his candidacy for the Senate.
Four Democrats are looking at the race, and the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee plans to target the 70-year-old Senator, who won re-election in 2000 with just 51 percent of the vote.
Both Secretary of State Rebecca Vigil-Giron (D) and state Attorney General Patricia Madrid (D) reach the end of their second terms in 2006 and cannot run for re-election.
The retooling comes as Democrats seek to make up a six-seat Senate deficit and wrest control of the majority from the GOP.