April 7, 2008 - 4:58pm
Ummm… what about me?
By Wally EdgeWith all this talk of Steve Merrill, another former Governor is asking why not him? Republican Craig Benson, who was defeated in his first re-election bid by Governor John Lynch, is wondering why Republicans are not calling him and asking him to come back and take on Lynch.
Lynch made history with his 2004 victory when Benson was the first governor since 1926 to be denied a second 2-year term. Benson may be looking for an opportunity to right history and take another shot at Lynch. Benson, who lost by 14,000 votes to Lynch, would have the personal resources to put into the race and would not need to look to the state committee for funding.
Benson has been more visable lately including attending a series of candidate fundraisers over the last few months.
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This is great. Craig made a
This is great. Craig made a number of small errors as Governor and allowed himself to be portrayed negatively but even with all of that Lynch was BARELY able to beat him. At a time like this the state needs someone who can fix the budget situation that John Lynch created.
I would call Benson, but don't know his number!!!
In a heartbeat I would implore Craig to
come back and cream Lynch the twit, but
I can't find Craig's phone number! Maybe
by now the GOP learned it's lesson: you
blue haired, blue blooded so-called
Republicans cannot win at anything without
us genuine, social and fiscal conservative,
crawl-over-broken-glass-to-vote
Republicans!
He's bought an election
He's bought an election before. He could do it again! C'mon Craig!
Our own Mitt Romney
Is Governor Benson actually floating this or is it just your colorful way of making an article reminding us all that he exists?
The ticker does have an interesting history of presenting speculation as news.
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