ST. CHARLES, Mo. (AP) — U.S. Senate candidate Roy Blunt has selected fellow Republican and former state treasurer Sarah Steelman to head a coalition of business people to inform his campaign.
The Missouri congressman is the leading Republican in the race to replace retiring Sen. Kit Bond. The Democratic front-runner is Secretary of State Robin Carnahan.
Steelman announced in September that she will not run for public office in 2010, ending months of speculation that she was considering a bid for the U.S. Senate or House. She said at a news conference in St. Charles on Friday that she is taking a semester off from teaching economics at Missouri State University to head the coalition.
Last year, she called Blunt a "big-spending Republican," and said the public was "sick and tired" of Washington experience.
