At least two people rumored to be among those Hillary Clinton is considering to be her running mate had the same answer when asked if they were being vetted for the job: talk to the campaign.
Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) has before denied that he was in the running and has joked about the job, saying he was already Clinton’s “VP” as her “vegan pal.”
But he had a harder stance on CNN’s “State of the Union.”
“I’m just referring questions about the vice presidency to the woman who is going to have to make this decision,” Booker said in an interview aired Sunday. “You should talk to the Clinton campaign.”
Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) has before said that he doesn’t want the job, which he reiterated in an interview aired Sunday.
“I’m not going to speculate,” Brown said on ABC News’ “This Week.” “Talk to the Secretary Clinton campaign.”
Wow, Sherrod. I didn’t think they’d take him. He’s well-respected in Ohio, but we’d lose his seat to a Republican.
All 2016 electoral politics aside, I absolutely love Sherrod Brown. He’s got the damned best gravelly voice and unruly curls since Ev. Dirksen, and that’s saying something.
(For those too young to remember the name, Ev Dirksen was the Republican Minority Leader in the Senate for many years many years ago, back when there was such a thing as Republicans who gave a damn about the country. In the 1960s, he worked with Lyndon Johnson to get civil rights legislation passed. And, yes, he had great hair and a great voice, both of which surpassed Brown’s.)
(And, yes, Brown is also one hellova good liberal!)
Julian Castro.
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Everett Dirksen was also the answer to a question I had posed here about a week ago.
I had to concede.
Found the following from a student’s 1970 thesis on Dirksen’s use of humor in speeches:
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This is the problem with Brown, Brooker and Warren. The only safe incumbent senator she could pick would have to be from a state with a Democratic governor, and there are limited possibilities looking at it that way. I’m going to say Julian Castro