Grams tells GOP group he's out of Senate race

[Freddie Stubbs]

Chris Serres, Star Tribune
April 25, 2005

Rod Grams gave up his bid for a U.S. Senate seat on Saturday, according to an official in the state party, a move that would virtually ensure that U.S. Rep. Mark Kennedy will walk away with the Republican nomination in 2006.

Grams did not return phone calls to his home Saturday for comment, but a party official said the former senator announced plans to drop out of the race during a speech at the Minnesota Republican Party's Eighth District Convention in Isanti, Minn.

"He basically said, 'I want my friends here of the Eighth District to be the first to know I will not be running for the U.S. Senate,'" said George Cable, the chairman of the convention and a former deputy chairman of the state Republican Party. "He went on to say that he would strongly support whoever won the nomination."

Grams offered very little explanation for the decision, but last month he lashed out against state Republican Party leaders for endorsing Kennedy.

more: http://www.startribune.com/stories/587/5366165.html

[GAspnes]

1. Okay, he said it,

you can stop squeezing his ... now.

Sheesh, if I only had windows this transparent.

[loveable liberal]

2. So Screech is their ab-nomination?

[dflprincess]

3. Screech must truly be the annointed one as he

was in Rome for Benedict XVI's mass this past weekend.

[CatholicEdHead]

4. Well he did plug his trip on KARE-11

this weekend. He made a "special" phone call to make everyone aware he was in Rome for the installation mass.

[VoxMN]

5. What a surprise

Was he ever really in this thing? He does make a good point about the endorsement process in the Republican party being stupid though (more on this at my blog).

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