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the seat belongs to the people and not to any person. I would sooner see a seat sit vacant until a special election can be held rather than a governor making an appointment.

I take it that you approve of the 17th Amendment
The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two Senators from each State, elected by the people thereof, for six years; and each Senator shall have one vote. The electors in each State shall have the qualifications requisite for electors of the most numerous branch of the State legislatures.
When vacancies happen in the representation of any State in the Senate, the executive authority of such State shall issue writs of election to fill such vacancies: Provided, That the legislature of any State may empower the executive thereof to make temporary appointments until the people fill the vacancies by election as the legislature may direct.
and prefer that system to the Framers’ design which the Framers clearly intended never to see amended:
The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two Senators from each State, chosen by the Legislature thereof . . .
. . . no Amendment which may be made prior to the Year One thousand eight hundred and eight shall in any Manner affect the first and fourth Clauses in the Ninth Section of the first Article; and that no State, without its Consent, shall be deprived of its equal Suffrage in the Senate.
The constitutional design, that is, provides that each State government is to be represented by two senators, and that provision was not made subject to normal amendment by 3/4 of the states but by unanimous consent of the states.
The slimy 18th Amendment did not change the number of senators from any state but made the senators from each state representative not of the government of that state but of the people of that state. It is no accident, comrade, that SCOTUS only began overturning state laws in a big way when the state governments no longer controlled the Senate.