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Article: NO QUARTER; McCoshen chewing on run for governor
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- December 6, 2007
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Is there any group of people held in lower regard than lobbyists?
Car salesmen?
Journalists?
Here's one possibility: lobbyists who are thinking about becoming
politicians.
Big-time Republican lobbyist William McCoshen has been talking to
friends and money people about running for governor in three years,
according to a half-dozen GOP types. Many of those involved in the
discussions are former staffers for ex-Gov. Tommy Thompson.
"He's seriously looking at it," one Republican insider said of
McCoshen. "He's serious about exploring it."
Apparently, it's never too early to think about 2010.
McCoshen, 42, downplays the buzz.
"I haven't given it a great deal of thought," he said Wednesday, ...