Mel Martinez To Slink Away. Who Will Take His Place?
Republican Senator Mel Martinez has announced that he will not run for re-election to the United States Senate in 2010. Like all people who retire from political life, he said that he wanted to spend more time with his family. The truth is, however, that the approval ratings for Senator Martinez are sinking lower, and he would have had a difficult time being re-elected.
Who will run for the open seat in the Senate from Florida in 2010? The only registered candidate so far is Dave Roberts, an independent tax accountant. The address for his campaign web site was at http://home.earthlink.net/~gohomemel/ – but now Mel has decided to go home, and the web site is blank. Is Dave Roberts going home too?
We don’t know what Democrat will run for the emptying Martinez seat, but it wouldn’t take much to be an improvement on Mel Martinez, who scored only a 6 percent progressive legislative score from Progressive Patriots. That’s out of a 100 point scale.
That’s failing times ten. Good riddance, Senator Martinez.
