Wisconsin State Sen. Frank Lasee May Run For U.S. Senate!

Wisconsin State Senator, Conservative Tea Party Republican, Frank Lasee says he’ll decide in the coming weeks if he will throw his hat into the ring for retiring US Senator Herb Kohl’s seat.

“I got elected to serve the people in the first senate district, and I want to serve them in a larger capacity,” said Lasee.

Senator Lasee is one of the names being thrown around in the run for Democratic Senator Herb Kohl’s seat once he retires. Others include two other republicans–former governor Tommy Thompson and State Assembly Speaker Jeff Fitzgerald. Congressman Ron Kind and former Congressman Steve Kagen are among the democrats considering campaigning for the seat.

“I think it’s a good sign so many people want that job, but I think it’s going to be a very tough primary,” said political analyst James Morrison.

Morrison is surprised so many big names may be on the ballot for the U-S Senate seat.

“We’ve got a former governor,who hasn’t been around politics for awhile. We got Mark Neumann. We got Frank Lasee, who just got in the senate recently. And speaker Fitzgerald who is in the heat of politics,” said Morrison.

Morrison believes this race may heat up as much as the recall elections.

“The only bad thing about having so many name recognized candidates is it’s going to cost a lot of money again,” said Morrison. ”These people are going to spend a lot of money on the primary because it’s going to hurt them all. They won’t have enough to run for the general.”

We’re told candidates can’t make an official announcement until they organize a campaign committee or take other steps to launch a campaign.

So far, the only declared candidate is  Mark Neumann who had been absent from politics for some time until last year when he ran for Governor, spent the better part of $6M dollars of his own money, and lost to Scott Walker by 20 points. He’s also said some vial, despicable anti-gay statements that only serve to alienate moderates and give liberals ammunition to malign Conservatives and Tea Party folks. For the record, Mark Neumann is not a Tea Party Candidate…Period!

Neumann told The New York Times in 1996 that “if I was elected God for a day, homosexuality wouldn’t be permitted, but nobody’s electing me God.”

Years later, he clarified the remark, explaining he would not want God’s job.

And in 1997, when speaking to the Christian Coalition [of America], Neumann said, “If somebody walks in to me and says, ‘I’m a gay person. I want a job in your office,’ I would say, ‘That’s inappropriate,’ and they wouldn’t be hired, because that would mean they are promoting their agenda. The gay and lesbian lifestyle [is] unacceptable, lest there be any question about that.”

It’s nice to see a real conservative alternative to Newmann & Liberal Republican Tommy Thompson!