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To: JakeStraw who wrote (470227)	10/3/2003 10:13:53 AM
From: Hope Praytochange	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

another senator seat adding to our side Young Will Not Run for U.S. Senate Former U.N. Ambassador Declines Candidacy in Georgia By Dick Pettys The Associated Press Friday, October 3, 2003; 8:50 AM ATLANTA -- After keeping Democrats on the edge of their seats for days, former U.N. Ambassador Andrew Young announced Friday that he will not run for the U.S. Senate. That leaves the post being vacated next year by retiring Sen. Zell Miller without a significant Democratic challenger. Four Republicans, including congressmen Mac Collins and Johnny Isakson, are already campaigning for Miller's seat. "I decided that I could not be the candidate," Young said Friday. "I was afraid I'd win. Winning would mean I would spend the next seven years of my life in Washington, and Washington is not always the center of action." He said he wanted to help "maintain and restore a new hope in democracy" but not by running for Senate. A day earlier, Young had told members of the Democratic Study Group on National Security that he was "in the process" of preparing a campaign. Georgia Democrats had rallied around him as their leading candidate. Young, 71, was a congressman, U.S. ambassador to the United Nations and Atlanta's mayor for two terms. His rise to prominence began during the civil rights struggle, when he was a top lieutenant of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. His election to the U.S. House in 1972 made him the first black elected to Congress from Georgia since Reconstruction. President Carter named him U.N. ambassador in 1977. Young resigned in 1979 amid a public uproar over a clandestine meeting he had with members of the Palestine Liberation Organization. The only announced Democrat is little-known state Sen. Mary Squires of suburban Atlanta. Two potential Democratic candidates -- Michelle Nunn, daughter of former Sen. Sam Nunn, and U.S. Rep. Jim Marshall -- have said they would not run if Young entered the race.