Breaking: Lt. Gov Tina Smith to take Franken's seat and run in 2018

[octoberlib]

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BREAKING: Democratic operative tells @AP Minnesota governor to appoint Lt. Gov. Tina Smith to Franken's seat; she will run in 2018.

[Roland99]

1. Assuming Franken does step down

[octoberlib]

2. I want him to stay, too but wouldn't he have informed his Governor?

[Roland99]

7. Politics is a never-ending drama eh?

[Thor_MN]

4. Thank you!!!

I get so tired of everyone talking in past tense.

News Flash: Franken has only announced that he would resign, not that he resigned.

[janterry]

5. I am nursing a dying hope, too

Al

[riversedge]

3. Last week, newspapers said she would not run. well well. I am not opposed as things

change in politics all the time. Gov Dayton has done well in MN and I trust his judgement.

[Mister Ed]

6. Very dangerous.

I imagine Tina Smith is a lovely, talented, and capable person. But I don't know, and that's the problem. She is a virtual unknown to us Minnesota voters, and she has no real experience at all in running a campaign. That means a huge uphill battle for her election eleven months from now.

A Democratic senate seat that had been safe until at least 2020 is now wide-open.

[octoberlib]

8. It makes me sick. She'll have to get up to speed on everything Al was working on, too.

[alarimer]

9. Well, we'll lose that seat then.

I don't think she will beat Pawlenty.