(H/T – Kevin Binversie – Twitter/blog)
I hate to run away from a good breakout session at RightOnline, but something HUGE popped up back at home. Politico is reporting that Jim Doyle will not be running for re-election in 2010. Jonathan Martin believes that Doyle is still in line for an early exit courtesy an Obama appointment, which would make Lieutenant Governor Barbara Lawton the de-facto incumbent. Others in the Cheddarsphere, like Josh Schroeder and the Recess Supervisor, think that Congressman Ron Kind would be the front-runner.
We now return you to your regularly-scheduled weekend.
Revisions/extensions (4:55 pm 8/15/2009) – I briefly spoke with The Wall Street Journal’s John Fund regarding this, and he had a couple of observations:
– Doyle’s exit would make things a bit harder for the Republicans as they wouldn’t be able to run against him.
– As for the timing, it makes sense to do it now rather than in, say, May 2010 (the filing period is July), because it would give the Dems a bit of time to actually recover.
I also added a link to Kevin’s blog post in addition to his Tweet. It is interesting that he really scooped everybody back in Wisconsin.
I’ll have more thoughts either tomorrow or Monday.
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I don’t like to do updates in the comments, but I’m mobile right now. I surprised John Fund with the news, and he said it would be harder for either Scott Walker or Mark Neumann to win.
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Interesting, indeed.
Seventh Circuit Appeals job?
Or an even MORE sleaze-tainted DoyleAdmin scandal?
For sure, it is NOT babes.