Surely not even Arkansans would allow this.....
Clinton Eyes 2002 Senate Race As Arkansan - Report
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Updated 4:20 PM ET June 27, 1999
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Friends of President Clinton
believe he will run for the Senate from Arkansas in 2002,
The New Yorker reported Sunday.
Jeffrey Toobin, writing in the "Talk of the Town" section
of the magazine due out Monday, said that "over the past
several weeks, some old friends of the first family have
been talking" about another Senate race besides first
lady Hillary Clinton's widely expected campaign to
succeed New York Democratic Sen. Daniel Patrick
Moynihan when he retires next year.
"These people believe that Bill Clinton will run for the
United States Senate from Arkansas in 2002," Toobin
said. "One person who has spoken to the president
about the possibility of this campaign described his
reaction as 'noncommittal but interested."'
"The incumbent in the Arkansas Senate seat might
make the race especially tempting for Clinton," Toobin
added. That is first-term Republican Sen. Tim
Hutchinson, who voted to impeach the president on both
counts brought against him earlier this year, Toobin said.
Rep. Asa Hutchinson, one of the House managers in
Clinton's impeachment trial, is the senator's brother.
Toobin pointed out that when Clinton leaves the White
House in January 2001, he will be the youngest former
president since Theodore Roosevelt. "If Clinton won, he
would be the second ex-president to serve in the
Senate," after "his fellow impeachee, Andrew Johnson,"
a senator for five months before his death in 1875,
Toobin wrote.
Asked about the magazine's report, White House
spokeswoman Julia Payne said: "I don't know anything
about it. Everyone, including the president, is speculating
about what he's going to do next."
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