Secretary of State Jan Brewer has announced the selection of former Senate President Ken Bennett to fill her office once she becomes governor.
Bennett, a Prescott Republican, served eight years in the Legislature, including four as Senate president. He left office in January 2007 due to term limits.
As an appointed secretary of state, Bennett would not be in line of succession for governor, although he is expected to run for a full term as secretary of state in 2010.
“Ken Bennett is exactly the person that I would be proud and honored to serve with,” Brewer is quoted as saying. “He is personable, has excellent leadership qualities and he uses those skills extremely well to reach across the aisle and bring people together around a specific cause.”
Bennett doesn’t have any friends named Lieberman, Kennedy or Feingold, does he?
Why is it that the ‘long arm’ of big-tent, all-inclusive, Republican political bipartisanship frequently translates into a short arm to conservatives? Sometimes it’s not even as much as that, when it gets reduced to a finger…
We moved to Arizona in 2008. What is Bennett’s track record? Because we didn’t live here during Bennett’s tenure we don’t know what he was like. Conservative or Republican lite?
This is a shock!!!!!!!!
Governor In Waiting Brewer could have made a loud and clear statement that hers was going to be a conservative Administration with the selection of Sen. Harper as SOS. I guess that would be too much to hope for.
[...] Seeing Red AZ speculates on the future of soon-to-be-appointed Secretary of State, Ken Bennett. Although Bennett would consitutionally prohibited from replacing Governor Brewer should the Governor’s Office become vacant before 2010, Should Bennett seek election in 2010 and be successful, that prohibition no longer applies. This begs the question whether Bennett will seek the post in 2010 or will he merely be a placeholder. Watch for Bennett to eye Congressional District 1 instead. [...]
Do I surmise you are unhappy with this appointment, Seeing Red AZ?