Sen. Domenici expected to retire-anounce tomorrow

[babylonsister]

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/10/03/sen-domenici-expected-to-retire/

Sen. Domenici expected to retire.

The Washington Post’s Chris Cillizza reports that Sen. Pete Domenici (R-NM) is “expected to announce tomorrow that he will retire from the Senate in 2008.” Domenici continues to be “dogged” by questions about his role in the U.S. attorney scandal and the ouster of David Iglesias.

[Captain Hilts]

1. R E A L L Y !?!?! nt

[Stinky The Clown]

2. Hahahahahahaha .... buhbye Petey! Don't let the door hit your ass on the way out.

I'm sure you didn't wanna face the shitstorm your next campaign would become.

Coward.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

3. All right!

Another seat for us Dems to take back!

:patriot:

[Coexist]

4. interesting!

[dmallind]

5. Cool - that should be a feasible pickup. NT

lkjljk

[NNN0LHI]

6. He wasn't going to win anyway

Goodbye to bad trash.

Don

[featherman]

7. Ahhh...ya beat me to it.... great news

Maybe Richardson will run... that would be a lock
If Heather Wilson runs for the GOP side it could open up her House District
All good news
http://blog.washingtonpost.com/thefix/2007/10/sen_pete_domenici_expected_to.html

[understandinglife]

8. Would be cool if Iglesias ran for his seat ;)

[VP505]

21. No it wouldn't

he is still a RePuke although I do have a lot of respect for him and thank him for standing up for what's right.

[understandinglife]

26. that was meant to be snark ...

[book_worm]

9. Richardson should run for the Senate--it would be a certain pickup

[SteppingRazor]

10. Rats! This turns my Senate Picks post from yesterday on its head!

:P


Although, thinking on the fly, I'll bet you that if Domenici retires, we'll see a replay of the contentious House race of 2006, in which Heather Wilson narrowly defeated Patricia Madrid. Of course, taking that race from a slightly red district to N.M. as a whole will give it different results.

[blondeatlast]

13. I missed that--can you link? I'd love to see it. thanks. nt

[SteppingRazor]

14. Sure! Here ya go:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x3571741


I've got the Dems picking up 6 seats and the GOP 1 seat, though if Domenici does retire, the Dems could easily go 7. Hell, if we can hold onto that one seat that I think the GOP will take away, and if we can get the only contentious race that I gave to the GOP (Nebraska), we'll get a filibuster proof majority in the Senate. :party:


(mind you, I don't think it's likely, but with Domenici out, it just moved from "impossible" to "improbable")

[babylonsister]

11. Most likely candidates to replace him:

http://blog.washingtonpost.com/thefix/2007/10/sen_pete_domenici_expected_to.html

The most likely candidates on the Republican side are Reps. Heather Wilson and Steve Pearce. Several Democrats are mentioned including Rep. Tom Udall, Albuquerque Mayor Martin Chavez, Lt. Gov. Diane Denish and former state Attorney General Patricia Madrid. The dream candidate for Democrats is Gov. Bill Richardson but his advisers insist he is not interested and focused on the 2008 presidential race. Wealthy businessman Don Wiviott is already in the race and has put several hundred thousand dollars of hiw own money into the bid.

[SteppingRazor]

12. Like I said above, I think a Wilson/Madrid rematch is pretty likely. n/t

[VP505]

23. Wilson would

be facing a tough challenge for her House seat, I think she will likely loose it to a pretty progressive guy. That's probably why she will likely run for "pajama Pete's Senate seat. I am not to sure if the Dem(Wiviott) that is running for Pete's job will be the strongest candidate.

[displacedtexan]

15. I actually predicted this on Sept. 13th.

Here's my prediction.

[SpiralHawk]

29. Bada boom bada bing ! Kudos

"What would you do at Domenici's age?

"Suffer the humiliation of a senate ethics probe so late in your career or choose to spend more time with the family?"


SPEND MORE TIME WITH THE FAMILY (smirk, smirk, smirk)

[cali]

16. Fantastic.

Does a dem stand a good chance?

[robinlynne]

17. He should be put in jail. He doesn't have the right to a public servant's retirement!

[VP505]

24. Although Pete is

a Repuke, up until 2001 when * got installed into office he was not too bad a Senator for New Mexico, since then he has pretty much turned his back on his state. There will lot of Progressive Dem's glad to see him go.

[robinlynne]

25. Well, he certainly was a part of the DOJ getting rid of any honest attorneys,

and with that, election theft....pretty serious stuff in my book.

[napi21]

18. Yeah! I CHEERED when I heard that on CNN.

I wonder if things are getting a loittle too hot in the investigation department?

[ZombieNixon]

19. Sweet!

About time that corrupt old fuck got out of there. I wonder who'll run.

[malaise]

20. Good riddance n/t

[City Lights]

22. Don't let the door hit ya' on the way out! eom

[proudleftists]

27. Good Riddance to Another GOP Crook

Hooray ! Hopefully he will be replaced by a Liberal Democrat
with the will and the courage to stop the drift to fascism in
America. BEYONCE WELCH - An African American Woman Who is Very
Scared & Frightened 

[Lost4words]

28. Aparently his brain is doing a automatic self labotomy!

no really, he has something that causes deteritation of the frontal lobes, I forgot the name but its all over New Mexico media.
Mood swings, personality changes et al.
It explains alot.