FL-Sen: Crist announces LeMieux as Martinez successor

Hot off the wires:

First Read has confirmed that Florida Gov. Charlie Crist (R) has chosen George LeMieux to fill Mel Martinez’s (R) Senate seat.

The pick of LeMieux — who had formerly served as Crist’s campaign manager in 2006 and then Crist’s chief of staff — is the clearest sign yet that this person would be a caretaker of the Senate seat, which Crist is running for next year.

Full article: http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com…

Clearly, this is an exceptionally safe and calculated choice. The question is, given LeMieux’s closeness to Crist, will it come off as too calculated? And, perhaps more pertinently, can we expect LeMieux to share the moderate streak of his old boss? Lacking any record as an elected official, is it even possible to judge as much?

17 thoughts on “FL-Sen: Crist announces LeMieux as Martinez successor”

  1. Many candidates for Senate seats have House voting records but many don’t.  Take Martha Coakley in MA.  I have no idea what kind of Senator she’d make.  She seems to have a little bit of a law and order streak in her from her AG page (not as liberal sounding as Chris Gregoire or Elliot Spizer in their time).  Bennet was another staffer in similar type positions and Kaufman fits the role, too.  Kaufman and Bennet have turned out pretty much opposites (I think Bennet’s key period was corporate).  LeMieux is a crap shoot but a safe one for Crist.

  2. I don’t know anything about this guy, but somehow I doubt he’ll satisfy the Republican right.  

  3. Besides being Crist’s old campaign manager? This smacks of nothing but croynism (I’m sure that’s already been said).

    Still, it’s nothing compared to what my country’s Prime Minister did yesterday. He broke a record by naming his party’s campaign manager, president, and his former press secretary to the Canadian Senate. Not to mention some defeated candidates and party loyalists to top off the orgy of appointments.  

  4. why can no incumbent governor so far manage to get the vacant senatorial appointment right despite mulling over it for weeks? I get that this is a bad economy and pretty much every governor except for Beebe and maybe Daniels is in negative/questionable territory, but jeez. He could’ve at least picked someone people have heard of that isn’t so obviously one of his own lackeys.

     

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