General Discussion
Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsFeingold actively considering comeback bid.
WASHINGTON -- Russ Feingold has been reaching out to supporters in recent weeks to discuss a 2016 Senate bid to retake his old seat from Republican Ron Johnson, sources with knowledge of the calls told The Huffington Post.
The progressive Wisconsin Democrat was wiped out of the Senate in the tea party wave of 2010, but since then, many supporters have been keeping their fingers crossed that he'd run again -- in a presidential election year likely to be more favorable to Democrats.
Multiple sources who spoke on the condition of anonymity told HuffPost that in recent months, Feingold has talked to Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.), Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett (D) and Rep. Mark Pocan (D-Wis.), among others.
Feingold will step down in March from his position as the State Department's special envoy for the Great Lakes Region of Africa, the sources indicated, and can't make an announcement before that.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/02/26/russ-feingold-_n_6761946.html
Marie Marie
(9,999 posts)He is a class act.
cascadiance
(19,537 posts)Marie Marie
(9,999 posts)calimary
(81,510 posts)Feingold - or bring back Howard DEAN. But it'd be nice, and sweet revenge, to have him get his Senate seat back from that useless GOP squatter.
Frankly, it'd be awfully nice to get Wisconsin back from scott walker.
cascadiance
(19,537 posts)If he had, I think we would have had Governor Feingold instead of Governor Walker and perhaps dealt a big blow towards Walker's ambitions to run in 2016 for the big office too.
But yes, first and foremost, I'd like to see him now back in the Senate. It's too bad we couldn't have a clone of him as DNC chair.
It would be good to get Howard Dean back too though as DNC chair if not someone like Feingold. But I would hope that, given some recent quotes of his that Dean would let a decent nomination process for 2016 happen and not try to push Hillary Clinton as our nominee without a decent debate that is needed within our party to ensure that our nominee deals with issues that most 99%er Americans care about. We need a nominee that Democrats and perhaps many independents and Republicans too will be able to trust as not being an agent of the 1% lobbyists. Dean has been spot on in many of his other public comments though, so I'd like to think he'd want to put in a process like that.
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)BlueCaliDem
(15,438 posts)him back in the Senate, right where he belongs. I'm still completely baffled by the 2010 elections that Wisconsinites would even consider voting in a RWer like Ron Johnson as their Senator.
Ilsa
(61,698 posts)billhicks76
(5,082 posts)Our system is bought and paid for and it's the only reason he's not President.
midnight
(26,624 posts)PedXing
(57 posts)Ed Suspicious
(8,879 posts)presidential bid, but it would be awesome.
PedXing
(57 posts)Ed Suspicious
(8,879 posts)what it is, but he just doesn't put his opponents away during election for some reason. I worked knocking on doors during his last campaign. I was devastated that "Sunspots" Johnson supplanted him.
http://m.jsonline.com/news/statepolitics/100814454.html
PedXing
(57 posts)ReRe
(10,597 posts)I so hope he runs and is elected to the Senate again. Go Russ!
lobodons
(1,290 posts)Sure would help Hillary shore up the left with Feingold on the ticket. Clinton/Feingold 2016
kelliekat44
(7,759 posts)PedXing
(57 posts)sheshe2
(83,929 posts)sabrina 1
(62,325 posts)respected Feingold and was so sorry to see him go.
We NEED him in the Senate, he is definitely someone I could get enthusiastic about.
ailsagirl
(22,899 posts)Lifelong Protester
(8,421 posts)We need some GOOD news here.
Iwillnevergiveup
(9,298 posts)whatever office he ran for. I've also always thought he'd be an awesome Supreme Court justice.
LWolf
(46,179 posts)I'd love it even more if he'd run in the upcoming Democratic primaries for president.
HereSince1628
(36,063 posts)I don't know if that would preclude a Feingold run but it doesn't favor it.
LWolf
(46,179 posts)Which do you think would be more "electable" on a national level?
BlueCaliDem
(15,438 posts)Russ Feingold is one of the good guys.