Keeping a low profile until he is picked to replace outgoing Senator Maximus Baucus.
Via Hot Air
As we move fully into the mid-term election season, we’re still focusing on the Senate races fairly often since the GOP has a rare chance to pick up a number of seats and take back the majority. An unexpected opportunity may be in the offing out in Montana, as we’ve discussed before, since Senator Max Baucus is expected to shortly be departing for a new job as Ambassador to China. The DSCC seems to have settled on their own hand picked replacement in the person of Montana Lt. Gov. John Walsh, and many are speculating that Governor Bullock will move quickly to put him in as interim Senator, giving him the advantage of incumbency in both the June primary and the general election.
Gov. Steve Bullock said Friday he expects to move quickly to appoint an interim U.S. senator once Sen. Max Baucus is confirmed as ambassador to China and resigns his seat.
As he has for weeks, Bullock refused to answer hypothetical questions about the appointment until Baucus is confirmed and resigns his Senate seat.
However, for the first time publicly, Bullock expressed his desire to move swiftly to fill the Senate appointment once it’s vacant.
“I also recognize that we only have three members representing us in D.C., so it’s important that we have the voices and strong voices and voices there immediately, so I certainly wouldn’t want to protract it or drag it out,” he told reporters about the Senate appointment.
Bullock may be having second thoughts if he was really planning to appoint Walsh though, and the Democrats might have moved a bit quicker than they’d like. Since the news broke, observers have been noticing that there are more than a few odd things going on.