The Southern Highland Reader

STATEWIDE–Moments after Libby Dole’s surprisingly sound loss to Kay Hagan in this year’s senate race, conjecture cropped up about the security of North Carolina’s other senate set, which belongs to first-termer Richard Burr.

A number of possible challengers have been floated, including 11th District congressman Health Shuler.

One, U.S. Rep. Brad Miller, a three-term Democrat from Raleigh, has pulled his name out of the hat.

He told the Raleigh News and Observer: “I don’t want to spend the next 18 months of my life having people from Washington tell me how to be southern.”

Shuler is mum on the prospect, as are other early possibilities Attorney General Roy Cooper and State Treasurer Richard Moore.

Tags: brad miller, heath shuler, Leadership and Politics, libby dole, North Carolina, Raleigh News and Observer, richard burr, roy cooper

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