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Byline: Greg Pierce, THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Hollings' deal
Sen. Ernest F. Hollings, South Carolina Democrat, says he will not run for re-election next year if his party can find a strong candidate to replace him.
"I'd love to have a candidate that would run, a Democrat candidate," Mr. Hollings told the State newspaper of Columbia. "I've been trying my best for 10 years to find one that will run."
The 81-year-old Mr. Hollings, who was first elected to the Senate in 1966, has given state Democratic Party Chairman Joe Erwin permission to shop for another Senate candidate, reporter Lauren Markoe says.
"I told him, 'You go ahead and look,' " Mr. Hollings said Tuesday outside the Senate chamber.
Asked whether his talk with Mr. Erwin and his hope that another Democrat would jump into the race mean that he would prefer not to begin a campaign for a seventh full term, Mr. Hollings referred to Mr. Erwin's search.
"It would depend on who he would find," the senator said.
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