That’s like what happened in SC, and the fast turnover in the job when Ken Ard was forced to retire and then Glenn McConnell left to become a University President. The fella next in line (Republican John Courson) did not want to become Lt Governor and give up his Senate seat, so he stepped down as President Pro Tempore and elected a guy who was fine with doing that, a Conservative Democrat named Yancey McGill, getting the job unopposed, and McGill served until the office came up for reelection, but didn’t run for it. He switched parties in 2016 and is now challenging Henry McMaster for Governor in the primary.
Curiously, it happened once again earlier this year when 86-year old GOP Senate PPT Hugh Leatherman did not want to succeed McMaster as Lt Governor when he succeeded Nikki Haley, resigned his job for a day, allowed the body to elect Kevin Bryant, who then became LG, and then they reelected Leatherman to his PPT post again. Like McGill, he is also running against McMaster for Governor this coming year in the primary (coming at him from the right).
McGill, yeah that pissed me off to no end but nothing bad happened and now he’s a Republican.
Neglected to realize, there is a vacant rat seat in the MN Senate right now, special is Feb 12. Special primary on Jan 29th, Filing deadline the 11th.
https://www.ourcampaigns.com/ContainerDetail.html?ContainerID=14337
Looks like a competitive seat, if I read correctly it says Trump carried it, while the Rat Senator (perv, resigned) was elected by about 7 points. We need to win that bastard and make the rats choke on it.