Sources: Michael Bennet will be Colorado's new senator

[babylonsister]

Sources: Bennet will be Colorado's new senator
By Lynn Bartels, Rocky Mountain News
Updated January 2, 2009 at 9:57 a.m.


At South HS graduation, DPS Superintendent Michael Bennet points with pride to Ricardo Escobedo after Escobedo's speech at the Convention Center in Denver, Colo. on Friday May 23, 2008.

Photo by Linda McConnell/Special to the Rocky


Denver Public Schools superintendent Michael Bennet is expected to be named Saturday as the future U.S. Senate replacement for Interior Secretary nominee Ken Salazar, according to two Democratic sources who spoke on the condition of anonymity.

Gov. Bill Ritter is expected to name his U.S. Senate replacement pick on Saturday, ending a brief but frenzied period of speculation about who will take the seat of Interior Secretary nominee Ken Salazar.

Since Salazar's nomination by President-elect Barack Obama, speculation has swirled about potential replacements .

The selection would be preliminary, since Salazar is not expected to resign his U.S. Senate seat until sometime after Jan. 15, when he faces a confirmation hearing — and later vote — to become President-elect Barack Obama's first Interior Secretary.

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http://www.rockymountainnews.com/news/2009/jan/02/ritter-make-senate-announcement-saturday/

[earthside]

1. Let's Hope Not

We don't need another middle-aged white guy who cut his teeth working for a billionaire (Philip Anschuetz) as a U.S. Senator from Colorado.

Are there no exceptional Democratic women who could be nominated?

A very uninspired choice if this turns out to be true.

[eleny]

2. I'm afraid that Hickenlooper will be nominated