For those who have forgotten, Herb Kohl…
Kohl. Herb Kohl. The senior Senator from Wisconsin? Yes, Wisconsin has two Senators. I know, I know: you’d never realize it from the news or anything, but they actually had more than one. It’s a constitutional requirement, in fact.
…at any rate, Kohl is retiring in ’12 (or at least, won’t be showing up for work anymore), which means that the seat he occupies is of interest for the first time in decades. Russ Feingold was assumed to be the front-runner for it, but it’s becoming increasingly clear that Feingold losing to Ron Johnson has snapped the former’s political will like a rotten branch, so there’s an opportunity for the ambitious. It’s sort of what like what happens when a tree falls in a dense forest; the sudden influx of sunlight can cause rapid growth among the stunted saplings that had hitherto been denied the res0urces needed to thrive*. One such sapling is Rep. Tammy Baldwin, who is apparently on the cusp of running. Continue reading #rsrh Tammy Baldwin (D, WI) to run for WI-SEN?