Cochran Expected to Resign Next Year

[RandySF]

Sen. Thad Cochran (R-MS), chairman of the powerful Appropriations Committee, “hasn’t presided over a hearing since early September. The Mississippi Republican has not given a speech on the Senate floor all year, and he’s introduced only two bills during that time, both of them minor,” Politico reports.

“The 80-year-old’s feeble performance has fueled expectations — among senators and aides who’ve witnessed his physical and mental decline firsthand — that Cochran will step down from the Appropriations chairmanship early next year, or resign from the Senate altogether.”

Said one GOP senator: “The understanding is that he will leave after Jan. 1, That’s what most of us believe will happen.”


https://politicalwire.com/2017/12/21/cochran-expected-resign-next-year/

[OliverQ]

1. Good. It's Mississippi so I'm not holding my breath,

but would be nice to pull another Doug Jones there and take another seat.

[crazycatlady]

2. According to a blog I follow

MS has a Democrat on their bench, Brandon Presley (related to Elvis) who's interested in running for senate. They also have that crazy dude who lost the primary in 2014.

If this is the case, the Alabama model needs to be copied.

[FarCenter]

3. By waiting to January, the vacancy would be filled in the general election November 2018

The governor would appoint someone to fill the vacancy until November 2018.

No special election would be held.

https://ballotpedia.org/Filling_vacancies_in_the_U.S._Senate