Posted on 02/16/2008 1:12:37 PM PST by Clintonfatigued
The state GOP chairman says a Little Rock health care executive who lost the Republican primary for an Arkansas congressional seat in 2006 is considering running against Democratic Senator Mark Pryor.
Tom Formicola of Little Rock is forming an exploratory committee for a potential run against Pryor, who is seeking a second term in November and has not yet drawn any major party opponents.
Dennis Milligan, chairman of the Republican Party of Arkansas, said Formicola approached him after Milligan initially said he thought the GOP would be unable to field a candidate against Pryor. Milligan provided copies of a statement of organization form for the exploratory committee Formicola has filed with the Federal Election Commission.
The 48-year-old Formicola is the sales and operations manager for Medtronic Incorporated.
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Well, Mark Pryor has an opponent now. The reason he won in the first place was because the character-challenged Tim Hutchinson insisted that he was entitled to be reelected in spite of his scandalous divorce.
Well, call me crazy, but something tells me that Pryor will win going away against an unknown such as Formicola, but that Mike Huckabee would whoop Pryor. Given that Huckabee will not get the GOP nomination, and will not be McCain’s VP nominee (or at least we should hope he isn’t, since we’d probably end up with President Clinton or Obama if McCain doesn’t pick someone who is conservative on both social *and economic* issues as his runningmate), he should seriously consider running for the Senate. I’d definitely support Huckabee in that race.
Good point, and Formicola would willingly step aside for Huckabee.
I’d be amazed if he did. The only downside is that if he won, he’d still be the GOP leader in the state, and he proved himself a grade-A failure in that capacity.
Who would’ve stepped in if Hutchinson had quit the race?
Then-Governor Mike Huckabee, perhaps. Or mabye Lieutenant Governor Winthrop Rockefeller.
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