The New York Times has a story this morning about Thune and Ellsworth:
He pulled out all the stops and virtually camped out at the commission hearings being held at a hotel just outside Washington, buttonholing anyone he could to make the case for Ellsworth. "I've spent more time with this BRAC commission than I've spent with my wife and my family in the last three months," he said.
Mr. Thune noted that in his 2004 run for the Senate, he had never run advertisements or made statements promising to keep the base open. But the idea that a Republican lawmaker could be more useful to the state given the party's hold on Washington - more influential than even the Senate's top Democrat - was a persistent undercurrent of the campaign.
But Daschle ran lots of ads and made statements about Ellsworth during 2004. Then the New York Times put a call in to Daschle:
Reached Friday, Mr. Daschle politely sidestepped inquiries about the political implications of the decision. "I'm very happy for South Dakota," he said in an e-mail message.
Anyone wonder if he's been able to get to a phone to call Thune and congratulate him?
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