More likely that Lynne Cheney will take Wyoming Senate seat

Last week, the blogosphere buzzed that the Vice President's wife Lynne Cheney might be nominated to fill the open Wyoming Senate seat, vacated by Craig Thomas, who recently passed away.  In the beginning, it was only a rumor.

Now, as the AP tells the Star Tribune, a spokesperson for Lynne Cheney is refusing to deny that she is interested in the Senate seat:

A spokesperson for Lynne Cheney, wife of thevice president, would not deny that she, too, was a candidate for theU.S. Senate seat, according to The Associated Press.

The committee will present the list of thethree top vote-getters to Freudenthal (the governor), who then has five days to chooseThomas's replacement.

With the deadline on the 19th of June, we should know by the beginning of next week weather she is indeed throwing her name into the hat.

Governor Freudenthal is a Democrat, but has agreed to go with whoever the Wyoming Republican Party nominates as the replacement.  If Lynne becomes Senator, it will mark the first time in American history that a husband and wife have served in the Senate at the same time.  (Remember, the Vice President is also the President of the Senate.)

Remember, this is the same Lynne Cheney that smeared Jim Webb last October for including sexually explicit material in a novel, despite the fact that one of her novels contained scenes describing a lesbian love affair.