BREAKING: Debbie Stabenow (MI-SEN) will retire

[brooklynite]

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[SleeplessinSoCal]

1. Run Al, Run!!

Senator AL Franken come home to the Senate, please.

[CentralMass]

2. +1 oops. Wrong state.

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[Srkdqltr]

3. He has to move to Michigan.

[SleeplessinSoCal]

5. Rats!

I was thinking of Amy Klobuchar.

[Srkdqltr]

11. She isn't Michigan either

[SleeplessinSoCal]

19. I know that.

But I was wishfully thinking Minnesota - MI

[hlthe2b]

18. Al Franken is from Minnesota, not Michigan

[SleeplessinSoCal]

20. See above. n/t

[ecstatic]

23. Even if he were in Michigan, why would he want to run again after

being betrayed like that? If I were him, I would never want to deal with the people who kicked me under the bus ever again. That said, I know that successful politicians have spines of steel.

[carpetbagger]

4. I hope Buttigieg can hit the ground around the state.

[Srkdqltr]

9. ???

[Buckeyeblue]

14. Pete moved to Traverse City last year...

He would definitely be a strong candidate.

[Happy Hoosier]

27. I did not know that....

Glad to hear it!

I was hoping Pete could make more of an elected office splash, but here in deep red Indiana, he has no chance state wide. Glad he moved to a state where he can advance.

[Buckeyeblue]

29. His husband's family lives there

I want him to have opportunities but I think our AG and SOC will be strong candidates for statewide positions.

I would like to see Pete run for governor in 4 years.

[brooklynite]

6. I'm thinking of Elissa Slotkin...

[Srkdqltr]

8. Yes

[JI7]

10. She needs to hold the house seat which could go Republican without her

[Srkdqltr]

7. Gilcrest, the Lt Gov.

[nycbos]

12. Thank you Senator Stabenow for your long career in public service.

[RandySF]

13. Come on, Big Gretch!

[catbyte]

16. I don't think she's going anywhere any time soon. We need to look elsewhere.

[Kaleva]

24. She's term limited as governor

[Kaleva]

26. I agree

51 years old, she could serve in the Senate for several terms.

[catbyte]

15. That'll make things trickier (paging John James, ugh) but we have a lot of talent here.

[W_HAMILTON]

22. That's good to hear.

I was thinking this was a bad sign for us. I figured she would win, but losing the incumbency usually costs a few points, which could make it a toss-up race. If there are a lot of strong Democratic Michiganders that can step up, that makes me feel a little more at ease.

Any idea who would be the most likely? Would Whitmer herself step down as governor and run?

[RandySF]

17. Andy Levin?

[Casandia]

21. Dan Kildee

Is my first choice.

But Mallory McMorrow would be a most excellent US Senator

[Mad_Machine76]

25. Yes to Mallory

I loved hearing her stand up to right-wing bullies in the Michigan legislature!

[Yavin4]

28. What about Jocelyn Benson, MI Secy of State? She's a rockstar.

She stood up to Trump during the 2020 post-election. She just won statewide re-election by 14 points.

Prior to attending law school, Benson also lived in Montgomery, Alabama, where she worked for the Southern Poverty Law Center as an investigative journalist, researching white supremacist and neo-Nazi organizations. Benson has also worked as a summer associate for voting rights and election law for the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, and as a legal assistant to Nina Totenberg at National Public Radio.[1][2][3]

Benson received her JD from Harvard Law School, where she was a general editor of the Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review.[4][5] From 2002–2004, she served as the Voting Rights Policy Coordinator of the Harvard Civil Rights Project, a non-profit organization that sought to link academic research to civil rights advocacy efforts,[5] where she worked on the passage of the federal Help America Vote Act.

Upon graduation from Harvard Law, Benson moved to Detroit to serve as a law clerk to the Honorable Damon J. Keith on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.[6][7]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jocelyn_Benson