Ken Cuccinelli

Senator Ken Cuccinelli? The Plan May Be In The Works

Evan McMorris-Santoro | August 16, 2011, 9:18AM

Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli

Tea party mega-star and Virgina Attorney General Ken Cucinelli may be planning to bring his climate change scientist-suing, LGBT worker rights-scrapping and health care law-challenging ways to the United States Senate.

In a new interview with the Washington Post, Cucinelli says he's considering taking on Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA) in 2014.

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Harry Reid Jumps On The 'Draft Kaine' Bandwagon

Evan McMorris-Santoro | February 16, 2011, 10:36AM

DNC Chairman Tim Kaine and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NY)

The White House isn't the only place where DNC chair Tim Kaine's future is being debated. Huffington Post's Sam Stein reports that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has also been courting Kaine to run for Senate in Virginia, now that Sen. Jim Webb (D) has retired.

According to Stein, Reid has "privately encouraged" Kaine to run in the race that would pit the former governor of Virginia against the winner of the Republican nomination fight currently led by former Sen. George Allen.

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Report: White House To Talk To Tim Kaine About VA-SEN

Evan McMorris-Santoro | February 15, 2011, 6:22PM

Tim Kaine, DNC chair

Democrats are so far without a mainstream candidate in the upcoming race for Senate in Virginia, and reports are the White House is looking to fill the hole with DNC chair Tim Kaine.

The Richmond Times-Dispatch reports that Kaine will meet with President Obama "in the next day or two" about running in place of the retiring Sen. Jim Webb (D).

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Tom Perriello

Perriello Source: All Options -- Including Senate Run -- On The Table In Newly Open Senate Race

Brian Beutler | February 9, 2011, 2:47PM

Rep. Tom Perriello (D-VA)

Expect progressives to push former Rep. Tom Perriello (D-VA) -- who was defeated in 2010 -- to run for Sen. Jim Webb's Senate seat.

A Democratic source close to Perriello tells me "Tom has not made any decisions yet about the future and is keeping his options open."

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Sen. Webb Challenges Obama On Key Initiatives At Critical Juncture For Democrats

Christina Bellantoni | January 29, 2010, 2:06PM

Sen. Jim Webb (D-VA)

Sen. Jim Webb is no stranger to butting heads with presidents, but his recent direct challenges to President Obama's agenda have been raising eyebrows and his national profile.

Polls had been closed in Massachusetts for less than two hours when Webb (D-VA) issued a statement putting the brakes on health care reform. He'd voted for the Senate bill, but that was after weeks of pressuring Senate leaders to be more transparent about the process and wavering on whether he'd actually vote to break a Republican filibuster.

Webb's latest critique is of the Obama administration's decision to try Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in New York City, and he hasn't been shy about calling for something different.

Webb told reporters yesterday that "The people who really want to solve the problems in this country are going to start working across the aisle to get things done."

He cited his fight to pass a GI Bill of Rights and said he's proudest of "what I like to call my own management model, a leadership model" of working with others.

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