A Deeds race after all?
Yesterday, Rick Sincere wrote that he hears tell that Sen. Creigh Deeds may get tapped for Secretary of Transportation. Though I haven’t heard a thing about such a possibility, the thought has crossed my mind.
Exhibit A: After Del. Bob McDonnell won the recount ten days ago, there were no public statements from the presumed candidates for the Democratic nomination (Connie Brennan, Marshall Pryor, Meredith Richards, or Mike Signer) indicating that the race to the starting line had finished. I haven’t spoken to a one of them since McDonnell won the race, but I have to wonder if they know something that we don’t.
Exhibit B: As has been widely remarked upon, we Democrats have no obvious bench for 2009. Though we won the statewide race by getting Tim Kaine elected as governor, we lost both the lieutenant governor and attorney general races. So Republicans have two guys in a position to launch a campaign for governor in a couple of years, while Democrats have nobody obvious. Creigh Deeds is clearly in an excellent position to do so, save for the fact that he remains merely Sen. Creigh Deeds. A cabinet position, provided it’s a suitably powerful and public one, would put him in a better position to run for governor in four years. Secretary of Transportation certainly fits the bill.
These two data points, on their own, weren’t enough to lead me to publicly speculate that Deeds may give up his seat to serve Governor-Elect Kaine. But with Rick saying that there’s been talk about just that happening, I’m thinking the odds aren’t bad. I know I sure like it. That’s an appointment I’d like a great deal more than this random guy off the street Kaine’s appointed as Secretary of Technology. (That’s a different discussion altogether.) Plus, Rick called me “the father of the Virginia blogosphere” a few days ago, so I’ll basically agree with everything he writes for at least the next few days.
Creigh Deeds. Secretary of Transportation. Dig it.
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