I was interviewed today by Ed O’Keefe of the Washington Post’s Federal Eye column for a story on our junior Senator, Ted Kaufman. Kaufman caught the Federal eye by his highlighting of your average federal workers during his allotted time for floor speeches in the Senate, putting a face to the caricature conservatives love to demonize. A preview of the full print story is available online now.
Kaufman is quoted in the story preview as follows:
Kaufman says he will not run in next year’s special election to finish Biden’s term. Instead, he will keep giving speeches about federal employees.
“I said when I took the job, that it’s a two-year deal,” he said.
O’Keefe wanted to know how local Delaware Democrats view Kaufman. I told him that we view him favorably, that he has proven to be a diligent worker in the Senate on the issues we care about, that he got a louder ovation at the state convention a couple months ago than did Senator Carper, and that if Beau Biden does not run (and in some cases even if Biden wants to run), many in Delaware want Kaufman to reconsider his intention to step aside and not run for election in his own right.