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Mondale expected to launch Senate campaign
By John Mercurio
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The 2002 campaign (what's left of it) will return to normal (sort of) today following Tuesday's memorial service for the late Sen. Paul Wellstone, D-Minnesota. Democrats will formally embrace former Vice President and ex-Sen. Walter Mondale as Wellstone's ballot replacement, and sources say Mondale will agree to GOP pleas for at least one debate against Republican Norm Coleman. In New Jersey, Senate candidate Doug Forrester, a Republican, and Frank Lautenberg, a Democrat, face off for their first televised debate, and first lady Laura Bush helps out a fellow Republican in Maryland. Here's a comprehensive look at the day's activities.
October 30
•Minnesota Democrats will meet at the Historic State Theater in Minneapolis to formally select former Vice President Walter Mondale as their nominee on the November 5 ballot for the U.S. Senate. Mondale is expected to attend the meeting, which will be part ceremony, part political rally preparing for Tuesday's elections. Republican polls taken last weekend showed Mondale with a narrow lead over Norm Coleman, the GOP nominee. For his part, Coleman, who suspended his campaign after Wellstone's death and planned to attend the memorial service Tuesday, will return to a full campaign schedule with a statewide fly-around. •New York Gov. George Pataki, a Republican, and his Democratic challenger, state Comptroller Carl McCall, participate in the Speak-UP youth forum in New York City. Pataki will also hold labor rallies in Albany and Hicksville. Polls show Pataki, the only Republican governor to enjoy widespread union support, is widely favored over McCall. •Connecticut Sen. Joe Lieberman, a Democrat, will campaign with state Comptroller Bill Curry, the Democratic gubernatorial candidate running against incumbent GOP Gov. John Rowland. Lieberman and Curry will hold a fundraiser in New Haven with Sen. Ted Kennedy, D-Massachusetts. Lieberman will also campaign today with state Rep. Joe Courtney, the Democrat who is challenging Rep. Rob Simmons, a freshman Republican. Both Republicans, Rowland and Simmons, should win comfortably next week. •First lady Laura Bush will headline an event for GOP Rep. Connie Morella in Bethesda, Maryland. Morella is locked in a tight race with state Sen. Christopher Van Hollen, a Democrat. •In Texas, Democratic Senate nominee Ron Kirk continues his "Common Sense" bus tour. Kirk, who is trailing Republican John Cornyn by single digits, will be joined in Waco by Democratic Rep. Chet Edwards and in Houston by Rep. Gene Green and ex-Sen. Lloyd Bentsen.
•Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, a Republican, campaigns across the state with the help of several of the state's mayors. Rick Baker of St. Petersburg, John Delaney of Jacksonville, David Dermer of Miami Beach, Dick Greco of Tampa, Glenda Hood of Orlando, Tommy McDonald of Chipley, and Jim Naugle of Ft. Lauderdale will campaign with Bush to discuss what Democratic gubernatorial nominee Bill McBride's budget cuts and tax increases will mean to the cities and growth management. Bush and the mayors will campaign in Miami Beach, Tampa, Tallahassee, Orlando and Jacksonville. •Vermont Gov. Howard Dean, a Democrat, actually campaigns in his home state, this time in Burlington for Peter Shumlin, the Democratic candidate for lieutenant governor. • Louisiana Rep. John Cooksey, a GOP Senate candidate, is going after his main Republican rival, state elections commissioner Suzanne Haik Terrell, in her own back yard: suburban New Orleans. Cooksey will be in Metarie today to announce support from prominent Jefferson Parish pols. Cooksey and Terrell are running against Sen. Mary Landrieu, a Democrat, who needs to get more than 50 percent in the open primary to win outright November 5. The Cooksey camp, which began a major television advertising push on New Orleans stations last week, is hoping to knock Terrell out of second place and get Landrieu into a December runoff. Regional GOP chairman John Treen, brother of ex-Gov. David Treen, a Republican, endorsed Cooksey and told the Acadiana (Louisiana) Advertiser newspaper that Terrell could not beat Landrieu because of doubts from the religious right about her position on abortion. •This evening, former Vice President Al Gore will headline a dinner the DNC and Elizabeth Smith Bagley are throwing for the DNC's 25 top donors at Bagley's home in Georgetown.
•After weeks of performing the delicate political ballet of debate negotiations, the candidates for New Jersey's Senate seat will finally meet for their first televised debate. Former Sen. and Democratic nominee Frank Lautenberg and GOP nominee Doug Forrester will face off in Edison. The first hour of the evening debate will include four third-party candidates. The last half hour will be between Lautenberg and Forrester. Before the debate, Forrester will hold a morning campaign event on Social Security in Pompton Plains. Lautenberg will phone in his regards to the Winning Margins PAC, which is holding a $50-per-person event on his behalf in Washington. Since it was founded in February, the PAC has raised $88,000 on behalf of Democratic Senate candidates. •New Hampshire's Senate candidates, Gov. Jeanne Shaheen, a Democrat, and Rep. John Sununu, a Republican, meet again at 8 a.m. today at the Center of New Hampshire in Manchester for another Chamber of Commerce forum.
•Rep. Robert Ehrlich, the GOP gubernatorial candidate in Maryland, does the "Big Phat Morning Show" on 92.3 FM radio in Baltimore. Later, he attends a "Democrats for Ehrlich" fundraiser in Lanham. Ehrlich is locked in a tight race with Lt. Gov. Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, a Democrat. •Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, a Republican, will campaign in Missouri with ex-Rep. Jim Talent, a Republican, who has pulled slightly ahead of Sen. Jean Carnahan, a Democrat, in recent polls. Former Sen. and 2000 presidential candidate Bill Bradley, D-New Jersey, will campaign with Carnahan. •Vice President Dick Cheney and his wife, Lynne Cheney, will campaign for Tennessee's GOP gubernatorial nominee, Rep. Van Hilleary. The Cheneys will speak at a lunch in Chattanooga. •New Mexico's gubernatorial nominees, Democrat Bill Richardson and Republican John Sanchez, will debate in Santa Fe. Richardson leads Sanchez by double digits in recent polls. •Retiring House Majority Leader Dick Armey, R-Texas, and Bill Bennett headline a $1,000-a-PAC fundraiser for GOP House nominee Jeb Hensarling at the Dallas home of Texas billionaire Sam Wyly. Hensarling is locked in a tight race with Democrat Ron Chapman, a retired judge.
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