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May 30, 2008 - 2:10pm

Ensign for Governor? Not likely, but maybe?

By Wally Edge
Category: GovernorTags: John Ensign, Jim Gibbons

Will John Ensign at least consider a run for Governor in 2010?  With incumbent Jim Gibbons looking less and less like a re-election candidate, there is a tiny bit of talk among Republicans that the GOP should run Ensign, their best vote-getter.  There is some precedent here: New Jersey’s Jon Corzine was the Chairman of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee in 2004, and when his part failed to pick up Senate seats, he opted to run for Governor in 2005 – and appoint his own successor to the U.S. Senate.  Idaho’s Dirk Kempthorne (now U.S. Secretary of the Interior) and California’s Pete Wilson left the Senate to run for Governor.

Hypothetically, if Ensign did win the governorship, he would appoint a new U.S. Senator who would serve until 2012.

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