April 9, 2005
VULNERABLE INKUMBENT:
Hiram Lewis to run for Senate nomination (AP, 4/09/05)
State Republican Party Treasurer Hiram Lewis IV announced Saturday he planned to seek his party's nomination to challenge U.S. Sen. Robert C. Byrd in 2006.Posted by Orrin Judd at April 9, 2005 9:54 PMLewis, an Army National Guard captain who served in Iraq, picked the second anniversary of the fall of Baghdad to announce his plans. The Morgantown lawyer made his announcement near the base of a statue of West Virginia's senior Democratic senator at the state Capitol in Charleston.
"My candidacy is not a personal vendetta against the senior senator; rather it is simply time for a change,'' said Lewis, who lost the GOP nomination to challenge Democrat Sen. Jay Rockefeller in 2002. Lewis came close to upsetting Democrat Attorney General Darrell McGraw in November.
The Morgantown lawyer made his announcement near the base of a statue of West Virginia's senior Democratic senator at the state Capitol in Charleston.
Boy, is there anything in West Virginia not named for this guy?
This reminds me...I have to go to my apartment's bathroom and utilize my Robert C. Byrd human waste disposal machine.
Posted by: Matt Murphy at April 9, 2005 11:17 PMWe just put clean Robert C. Byrd sheets on our bed this afternoon. Tomorrow, after church we're taking the kids to the Robert C. Byrd Children's Museaum.
Posted by: at April 10, 2005 12:14 AMEven my byrd house has his name on it.
BTW, those clean sheets for your bed - previous poster - are they white with two eyeholes near one end?
Posted by: oswald booth czolgosz at April 10, 2005 12:47 AM