All of a sudden, there’s a lot of speculation that Sarah Palin’s political future runs through Arizona, the home state of her 2008 presidential running mate John McCain and where her daughter Bristol Palin recently bought a house.
On Tuesday, state Rep. Steve Farley, D-Tucson, forwarded a rumor that Palin was contemplating coming to Arizona to run for retiring Republican U.S. Sen. Jon Kyl’s open seat in 2012.
Farley wrote in his weekly newsletter to constituents:
“And as long as we are trading in rumors, I will leave you with an unwelcome one that I heard this afternoon from two separate reliable sources: Sarah Palin is considering moving to Bristol's new house in Maricopa in order to run for Kyl's Senate seat. Just what we need in our politics -- another politician from out of state who believes that ideology trumps jobs, the economy, and common sense. Let's hope the rumor is wrong.”
Farley on Wednesday said his sources were two Republican lobbyists whom he would not name.
AZ/DC contacted several local GOP insiders, but none had heard the Palin-running-for-Senate rumor and all were somewhat skeptical of it. Palin, who is still considered a possible 2012 Republican presidential candidate, last year had the opportunity to run for the Senate in Alaska and passed on it. But it’s not unheard of for a national political figure to relocate to a new state to run for a Senate seat, as Robert F. Kennedy and Hillary Clinton did in New York.
Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer, who spent the weekend vacationing in Alaska, said she didn't have any conversations with Palin about a possible Senate run while she was in town and that the topic never came up.
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