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Home > Political Notebook > Archives > 2009 > January > 28 > Entry

Penry joins Kopp in pushing for U.S. Senate vacancy elections

By Mike Saccone | Wednesday, January 28, 2009, 11:15 AM

Senate Minority Leader Josh Penry, R-Grand Junction, has joined with Sen. Mike Kopp, R-Littleton, as a prime sponsor of a bill to require a special election to fill U.S. Senate vacancies.

The bill would make Senate special elections akin to congressional vacancy elections. For example, the Democratic and Republican parties would select their candidates for a vacant Senate seat using their central committees and through a primary.

This undoubtedly could affect the candidates that get selected to run in a special election, making Western Slope nominees, perhaps, even less probable given the weight the Front Range pulls inside each of the parties.

What do you think?

*Penry photo from The Daily Sentinel archives.

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