Well, officially un-officialBy Tim Redmond
UPDATE: Mark Leno has written a letter to Fog City Journal saying that his run against Carole Migden isn't really official yet.
So I just called Leno to check it, and he says he won't make a final final decision until mid-January. But "I'm looking at it very seriously," he said, and added: "I'm getting a lot of encouragement from local labor leaders."
I told him that, from everything I'm hearing, it's seems pretty clear to me that he's in the race. "It's certainly looking that way," he responded.
So there you have it. That's about as close to an unofficial official announcement as you get.
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Mark Leno would make a stronger candidate, and better Senator than Carole Migden. But the Leadership in the Senate Caucus will do everything to protect one of their own. I remember when Democrat Contra Costa Supervisor Sunne McPeak (now Schwarzenegger's Secretary of Transportation) ran against the very conservative - some would say reactionary - Senator from Contra Costa Daniel Boatwright. In spite of Boatwright's incredible deficiencies, and questionable ethical challenges, he received total support from the Senate Caucus. Richie Ross did the campaign for Boatwright, remaking him into a principled environmentalist, a sensitive poet and friend of working people. Needless to say the million dollar campaign worked, and the state lost one of the more remarkable people not to go to the State Senate. A Leno V. Migden race would bring others into it, and who knows how it would shake out. But I would bet on the remarkable campaign ability of Leno.
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December 25, 2006 05:41 PM