Well, Shit...
By Byron LaMasters
A friend of mine called me this afternoon saying that she no longer had a job, because the candidate that she was working for dropped out of the race. That's not cool at all - the Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate in New Hampshire (granted, he was a longshot), has dropped out. Politics NH reports:
State Sen. Burt Cohen (D-New Castle) is ending his bid for the U.S. Senate just one day before the period for candidates for that office to sign up ends.
"Burt Cohen will not be filing for the U.S. Senate," Cohen spokeswoman Meghan Scott said. "There is a situation with the campaign and we thought that it would be unfair to the [Democratic] party to continue."
Cohen, a seven-term state senator, began his campaign to unseat U.S. Sen. Judd Gregg (R-Rye) 18 months ago. He officially kicked off his campaign at a Manchester rally last Wednesday.
Because Cohen was the only Democrat in the race, his departure has put state Democrats in a scramble to find a candidate in less than 24 hours.
Cohen let the party know of his decision late mid-afternoon on Thursday.
State Democratic Party chair Kathy Sullivan is reportly working the phone to find a candidate. There is an informal list of four names rumored to be called.
I would have posted on this when I heard the news at 6 PM CST yesterday if I had computer access, but kos got to the story yesterday evening. Anyway, my friend lost her job, and she's looking for a campaign job that is hiring in Texas for the summer, so if you know anyone that is hiring, let us know!
Posted by Byron LaMasters at June 11, 2004 03:05 AM
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Hey there Byron. It wasn't Senator Burt Cohen's fault that the campaign went dead. Look up on Kos for the name Jesse Burchfield, campaign manager, and how he is suspected of looting 200 grand from the Senator's campaign. And to put it a different way, Burt really wasn't that much of a long shot. Sure, the Feldman polls had us far behind, but his name reck was low, so we had the advantage of using our Wellstone-like field-team to define Burt's name. Granny D is now one of the candidates running against Gregg, and if anyone up in NH is reading this, it'd be great if you could support her. Judd Gregg has done nothing for the state of NH or for Americans other than parrot Bush's strategy.Get him out!
