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Dale Brown reconsidering run for Senate (The Associated Press, 8/20/03)

Former basketball coach Dale Brown says he is reconsidering whether to run for office in North Dakota next year.

The Minot native and former longtime LSU men's basketball coach earlier this year decided against running for Congress against Democrat Byron Dorgan in 2004.

Brown said Monday that because former Gov. Ed Schafer, a Republican, is not interested in making a U.S Senate run, Republicans from across the country are urging him to run against Dorgan.

Brown said he expects to make a decision within a few weeks. "I owe them not to prolong this," he said of fellow Republicans.

This would immediately give the GOP a media savvy and celebrity-tinged candidate in a race that they should be able to make competitive. Posted by Orrin Judd at August 20, 2003 2:32 PM