GOP senator won't back Lange
2007-07-11
Source: Helena Independent Record
A Republican state senator said Tuesday he will cross party lines and vote for Democratic U.S. Sen. Max Baucus next year if state Rep. Michael Lange is the GOP nominee.
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rss feed"Somebody has to stop the bleeding,'' Sen. John Brueggeman, R-Polson, said in an unsolicited e-mail to Lee Newspapers State Bureau.
Brueggeman added that some other Republican legislators share his view, and he felt it was time to go public because their party is "kind of on the rocks right now.'' The prospect of having Lange as the party's Senate nominee doesn't help, he said, because he can't win and he couldn't replace the advantages Baucus brings to the state as a senior senator.
"I don't think he's got the steady hand, the stability, to be a statewide candidate,'' Brueggeman said of Lange. "I don't think he's got the faculties to serve in a statewide capacity.''
However, Brueggeman said, if a "headlining'' Republican runs for the U.S. Senate, he will happily support that candidate.
