Posted on 11/24/2008 12:23:26 PM PST by Chet 99
November 24, 2008
Categories: Delaware
Ted Kaufman to succeed Biden in Senate
Delaware governor Ruth Ann Minner (D) has selected Joe Biden’s longtime senior adviser Ted Kaufman as Biden’s successor on an interim basis, paving the way for Delaware Attorney General Beau Biden to succeed his father in two years.
“He’ll walk in there with all the experience he needs to do the job for Delaware,” Minner said at a press conference this afternoon, emphasizing that he will only be serving for the remaining two years of Biden’s unexpired term.
Kaufman is a co-chair on Biden's transition team and is one of the Delaware senator's closest advisers. He spent about two decades serving as his chief of staff.
He is currently president of Public Strategies, a political and management consulting firm based in Wilmington, Delaware.
Kaufman said he is not interested in serving in the Senate long-term, and will not be running for re-election in 2010.
“I do not think that Delaware’s appointed senator should spend the next two years running for office,” Kaufman said. “I will do this job to the best of my ability to serve the people of Delaware.”
Minner’s decision to appoint a caretaker like Kaufman paves the way for Biden’s son, Attorney General Beau Biden, to run for his father’s Senate seat in two years. Beau Biden, a member of Delaware’s National Guard, is currently preparing to be deployed to the Middle East, and took himself out of the running for the appointment.
Keep the seat warm, vote the party line, and collect the reward when he leaves. Sitting pretty, sitting rich.
This is dusgusting. Our governement was set up for average people to serve and then go home, not milk it for a career and use their popularity to get their family to take their place. Then they give each other awards for “public service”. I don’t care what party it is, term limits is the only answer.
How stupid are the people of Delaware? Too many DuPont chemicals in the air and soil?
Looks like liberal road kill to me.
One wrinkle in this scenario: If Beau Biden serves in a “hot” location as opposed to serving as a JAG-type in the rear, he could return home with a realistic understanding of what freedom means and costs. Such an understanding would be more accurate than that held by his “living-constitution” father. Of course, there is little chance of such an assignment, being the VP’s son.
In any event, if he gets out and about, he may have an opportunity to see up close what it looks like to have been an oppressed populace for decades or centuries.
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Of course, the problem with term limits is that you get officeholders who have no accountability to the electorate.
Term limits isn't the answer. An informed electorate combined with an expectation of honest statesmanship (so colleagues remove offenders) is.
Will America ever get back to that? I doubt it.
Wow, he looks like a cross between John Kerry and James Carville. Kind of a French-looking Skeletor.
Term limits was supposed to be the “solution” in California. Our legislature has only gotten worse since term limits were implemented.
I wonder if the GOP will again take an essential pass on the Biden seat. It will be permanently Biden, it seems. People in DE don’t understand the importance of controlling the power of government.
Libspeak translation: "My campaign begins next week. Vote for me in 2 years."
Yea, but the American people never understood all of this, no matter how many times it was taught to them.
Sadly the best the GOP in that RINO(ish) state could do (to win anyway) would be to put up Mike Castle, if they has any cajones (and actually believed conservatively): they’d put up Colon Boninisp?
Is Kaufman a resident of Delaware?
Mike Castle is the only one with a chance. Elections are won and lost at the recruitment stage.
I could see Biden losing if Obama/Biden are unpopular in 2010, and there’s a 1994 style backlash brewing.
More sleight of hand for the American “House of Lords”.
They should go back to state legislatures appointing Senators and be done with the charade already.
DelMarVa PING
The moonbats at the News Journal website are going bonkers over this.....they wanted Carney.
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