Utah Republican Bennett Open To Helping Democrats With Indie Run
May 11, 2010 2 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Sen. Robert Bennett (R-Utah), who lost his bid for re-nomination on Saturday, has not ruled out running as a write-in candidate for the Senate this fall.
“I’ve made no decisions to make a decision,” he said Tuesday when asked about his political future.
Bennett would only say he’d make a decision “later.”
Such a decision would put his colleagues – who personally like Bennett but will only endorse a GOP candidate in the primary – in a tough position.
“It’s a little like going to your own funeral while you’re still alive,” the 76-year-old, three term senator said of his colleagues who said they’d support the GOP nominee in Utah.
The senior GOP senator from Utah, Orrin Hatch, said it’s Bennett’s “right” to decide whether to run as a write-in, but said he shouldn’t mount such a bid, saying he has served “diligently and well and it’s a shame it happened.”
Asked if he could support Bennett as a write-in, he said, “Let me put it this way, he’s not going to do that.”
