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Katherine Harris Planning US Senate Run
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Posted on 01/08/2004 8:42:04 AM PST by Bush Cheney

Edited on 01/08/2004 11:40:39 AM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]

Watch your makeup compact, Hillary, Florida's Katherine Harris may have her eyes on the United States Senate, the DRUDGE REPORT has learned.

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Against the apparent wishes of senior Bush strategists, Harris has decided in her heart and mind that she will seek the Republican nomination for the U.S. Senate seat, sources close to Harris tell DRUDGE.

"She wants it, wants it badly!" a top source said Thursday. "She'll make her decision public within the next week."

The source, who has daily contact with Harris, cautions the congresswoman still could hold back and not make the run, in deference to the president and his brother's wishes.

Sarasota County's GOP chairman, Tramm Hudson, said he spoke to Harris Tuesday night and that she seemed ready to run, according to reports. Harris continues to be one of the party's top fund-raisers.

Elsewhere, Texas Senator Kay Hutchison has reportedly advised her republican counterpart to "Go for it!"

If elected Harris would join a select group of women ever to serve in the United States Senate.

MORE Harris advisers dispel any notion that bad blood still runs in Florida over Harris's role in the 2000 election drama.

"Look, Governor Bush handily won re-election last year, after 2000, and the state's voters did not punish him," notes one top Harris strategist who asked not to be named.

"And they will not punish Katherine. The senate campaign will be on the issues, and electing the best person to represent Florida in the senate!"

Developing...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Government; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: 2004; electionussenate; katherineharris
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To: deport
It sounds like she is running...I don't know why she'd be meeting with people privately if she wasn't.

Oh well...let the games begin.
121 posted on 01/08/2004 10:54:20 AM PST by Republican Wildcat
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To: Republican Wildcat; ClintonBeGone
I dont' know that she is...... but she's in DC for some reason.... here's a couple more para. from the article....


124 posted on 01/08/2004 11:04:41 AM PST by deport (..... DONATE TO FREEREPUBLIC......)
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To: sanatanDharmi
If Katherine Harris runs, she had better not try to "be nice" and court "moderates." That would be a recipe for disaster, for all the "moderates" there see "red" when they see her. The liberal-moderate base in FL, at least 48 percent, are already committed against Harris. She can woo none of those voters. And the Bush people do not really appreciate what she and Rep. Tom Feeney did for them in the 2000 recount episode.
125 posted on 01/08/2004 11:08:00 AM PST by Theodore R. (When will they ever learn?)
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To: MindBender26
Thanks for your assessment. I'm happy to hear that. I like KH a lot, and respect her for doing her job in a hurricane of Dem attacks. But 2004 is not her year ....
126 posted on 01/08/2004 11:08:49 AM PST by bootless (Never Forget)
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To: Republican Wildcat
He also said the Democrats were going to pick up a Senate seat in Texas.

McAwful said that? ROTFLMAO!!!! I worked on the Cornyn campaign, it was a cake walk. At no point did any polls have us at less than a 10-point lead.
127 posted on 01/08/2004 11:09:29 AM PST by BJClinton (If Howard Dean had his way, Saddam Hussein would be in power today, not in prison)
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To: GraniteStateConservative; All
"We do have Craig Benson in the 2008 pipe line."

As previously prognosticated by NewLand Political Landscape Consulting Services...

Republican Presidential Nominees for 2008 Thread

128 posted on 01/08/2004 11:12:08 AM PST by NewLand ("Hi, I'm Wes Clark...and I do anything SHE tells me to do!")
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To: OneTimeLurker
Why is the relevant. She executed the law as she interpreted it. Nothing wrong with that.

Of course there's nothing wrong with that - she stood her ground and followed the law.

That's why the Dims hate her so much. She would be a lightning rod in 04, an added incentive to for the Bring Out Your Dead crowd. Timing is everything...

129 posted on 01/08/2004 11:12:12 AM PST by bootless (Never Forget)
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To: krb

I don't know, she looks pretty "curvey" to me.

130 posted on 01/08/2004 11:12:57 AM PST by McGruff (Borders? We don' need no steenkin' borders!)
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To: deport
Interesting. So she might be shrewd enough to negotiate the White House's support in her 2006 race (during Bush's probable second term) in return for being a good soldier and backing the Pubbie nominee in the 2004 race. Now that would make good sense. Two more years to let the 2000 election furor die down would benefit her greatly.

That'd make more sense than her running right now.

}:-)4
131 posted on 01/08/2004 11:14:33 AM PST by Moose4 ("The road goes on forever, and the party never ends." --Robert Earl Keen)
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To: deport
For example, they say, Harris could be negotiating for political rewards for staying out of the race, such as a committee assignment or help running against Sen. Bill Nelson, a Democrat, in 2006.

That's quite possible, but does it really put Bush in a very good light that she's extorting him so publically? I think the odds are on her running. If I'm wrong I'll send Mindbender some flowers.

132 posted on 01/08/2004 11:16:10 AM PST by ClintonBeGone
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To: deport
Harris could be negotiating for political rewards for staying out of the race, such as a committee assignment or help running against Sen. Bill Nelson, a Democrat, in 2006.

I hope she does not run. She is a freshman in Congress, and this looks like she's an opportunist.

I want to have a Republican Senator, not another McCollum. She might be popular in Sarasota, but she's despised in Broward and Palm Beach counties.

The statewide election will be decided by the swing voters, and I doubt that swing voters have forgotten her 2000 demonization. The media have not, and they are ready to attack her 24/7.

133 posted on 01/08/2004 11:22:13 AM PST by george wythe
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To: Moose4
Two more years to let the 2000 election furor die down would benefit her greatly.

Plus Bush getting a majority of the popular vote in 2004 would make the 2000 debacle fade away.
135 posted on 01/08/2004 11:38:27 AM PST by BJClinton (If Howard Dean had his way, Saddam Hussein would be in power today, not in prison)
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To: krb
Of course she's that curvey.
136 posted on 01/08/2004 11:38:39 AM PST by Republican Wildcat
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To: Republican Wildcat
I agree...I guess it really is her. Nice looking lady...
137 posted on 01/08/2004 11:46:37 AM PST by krb (the statement on the other side of this tagline is false)
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To: Stone Mountain
Why doesn't the White House want her to run?

Because she's definitely a weaker candidate than Mel Martinez. Because she has poor approval ratings. Because polls show her losing to Betty Castor in the general election. Because her candidacy will take the focus off the Bush campaign agenda and make it impossible for Florida voters to get any Bush message besides "Katherine Harris selected Bush president." Hello, we moved on a long time ago, why give the Democrats and the press a chance to obscure the GOP message?

138 posted on 01/08/2004 11:49:56 AM PST by JohnnyZ (Abolish the food tax)
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To: krb
right--that's why your initial comment puzzled me. There's no need to falsify such a picture when that's exactly what she looks like in face and body.
139 posted on 01/08/2004 11:50:28 AM PST by Republican Wildcat
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