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Delaware surprise -- all in the family?

Weekly Standard Blog found this 11/25/2008 on firstread.msnbc.msn.com

From NBC’s Domenico Montanaro, Mark Murray and Doug Adams Delaware Gov. Ruth Ann Minner will appoint longtime Joe Biden loyalist, adviser and former chief of staff Ted Kaufman to fill Biden’s Senate seat when the vice-president-elect resigns. Per a Biden spokeswoman, the longest-serving Delaware senator will resign within the next 40 to 50 days. "As you know, VP-elect Biden has been a senator for 36 years and is chairman of a major Committee,” spokeswoman Elizabeth Alexander ...