Feingold: ‘I Am Looking At’ Senate Run in 2012

[Hissyspit]

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/06/03/feingold-i-am-looking-at-a-senate-run-in-2012/

Feingold: ‘I am looking at’ a Senate run in 2012
Published on June 3rd, 2011
Written by: Sahil Kapur

WASHINGTON – Former Sen. Russ Feingold (D-WI) told his home-state paper that he’s considering a run for the Senate in 2012, which liberals are urging him to do.

“I am looking at it, but I feel I should take some time to think this through,” Feingold told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel on Thursday. “For me the question right now is whether it’s a good idea for me to go back into this sort of life.”

The former three-term senator, ousted by Republican businessman Ron Johnson last November, now helms the advocacy group Progressives United. In recent months Feingold has spoken out against his own party on campaign finance reform, an issue Feingold dedicated himself to as a senator.

“I’m enjoying everything I’m doing … I certainly don’t need to get back into politics,” he said. “I don’t know for sure whether I will, but … I’m certainly not ruling it out permanently and I’m not even ruling it out at this point for the current election cycle.”

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[QED]

1. This is good news

or would it be better for him to be Governor of Wisconsin?

[mysuzuki2]

2. I'll vote for him either way.

[undeterred]

5. We've got lots of good people among the WI 14

who could be governor. Feingold has the best chance of raising the money and beating a GOP candidate for a Senate seat.

[undeterred]

3. We need him a lot more than he needs politics.

When I stop and think about Feingold as a person I realize he really deserves to retire right now if thats what he wants to do. He's been an excellent public servant. No state could have asked for anyone better.

But of course I want him to jump back in and I hope he does. Because whatever he does, he gives 200% and nobody does it better.

The best to you whatever you decide, Russ Feingold. :patriot:

[Faryn Balyncd]

4. Isn't that the truth!