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Democratic Governor Ruth Ann Minner has selected Joe Biden's longtime advisor Ted Kaufman to Biden's senate seat.
After Joe Biden resigns from the Senate prior to taking the oath to be Vice President, Kaufman will serve as Delaware's Junior Senator until the 2010 midterms when Kaufman has said that he will not run for re-election. At that point, Beau Biden, Joe's elder son and Delaware's Attorney General, is expected to run for his father's Senate seat.
Minner claimed that one of the reasons that she tabbed Kaufman was because he will not run in 2010 and therefore will spend the next two years legislating and not campaigning.
Kaufman is currently the co-chair of Joe Biden's White House transition team after having served as President of Public Strategies, a political consulting firm, since 1995. From 1971 to 1995, Kaufman served on Biden's staff, including a 19 year run as Biden's Chief-of-Staff.
Beau Biden has been the heir apparent to his father's seat for some time now. Most expected the younger Biden to be appointed to the Senate as soon as Joe moves to the Vice-President's office but Beau opted to serve a year long tour of duty in Iraq as part of Delaware's National Guard where he will serve as a military lawyer.
Few expected Kaufman to be tabbed for the job as John Carney, Minner's Lieutenant Governor who recently lost a close primary battle with Governor-elect Jack Markell for the Governor's job, was the favorite to be selected for the job.
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