rssUnconvincing Quote of the Day
Monday, January 04, 2010 at 1:53 pm
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It might be this, from Rep. Peter King (R-N.Y.), on why he’s still wavering on the Senate race that he ruled out last year.
[T]o do that, I’d have to give up the House seat. I’d have to run all over the state over the next year, when I couldn’t really be doing anything for homeland security, and I’d have to raise about $30 or $40 million.
Color me unconvinced that King would retire from the House in order to make the race — that’s an extremely rare move for federal candidates, who can transfer their campaign funds easily. And I’m a bit confused about how campaigning would prevent King from “doing anything for homeland security,” when a lot of his role right now is to do media interviews bashing weaknesses in the Department of Homeland Security — not the kind of thing he’d give up during a campaign.
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Comment posted January 4, 2010 @ 2:48 pm
Doesn't he mean that he wouldn't be able to run for another term in the House if he ran for the Senate? I'm pretty sure you can't run for both at the same time, and given that the polls have shown King in a really uphill battle against Gillibrand, King is understandably hesitant to give up his safe House seat for what looks like a Quixotic Senate run.
Then again, NY Republicans don't seem to have anyone better than King for the race that actually wants to run. King will probably be target #1 when NY loses a House seat. This probably wouldn't work, but if King were to run for the Senate and the State Senate at the same time, he'd probably be able to avoid having his old district balkanized if he took away the Dems' lead in the State Senate, then run for it again in 2012. I think he'll probably run, cause he's really got nothing to lose, and my guess is that Gillibrand beats him easily.
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Comment posted January 4, 2010 @ 7:48 pm
Doesn't he mean that he wouldn't be able to run for another term in the House if he ran for the Senate? I'm pretty sure you can't run for both at the same time, and given that the polls have shown King in a really uphill battle against Gillibrand, King is understandably hesitant to give up his safe House seat for what looks like a Quixotic Senate run.
Then again, NY Republicans don't seem to have anyone better than King for the race that actually wants to run. King will probably be target #1 when NY loses a House seat. This probably wouldn't work, but if King were to run for the Senate and the State Senate at the same time, he'd probably be able to avoid having his old district balkanized if he took away the Dems' lead in the State Senate, then run for it again in 2012. I think he'll probably run, cause he's really got nothing to lose, and my guess is that Gillibrand beats him easily.
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