Eli is said to be pick for Senate seat
DENVER — Michael Bennet LAW '93, the superintendent of Denver Public Schools, will be named to fill the United States Senate seat being vacated by Ken Salazar, currently up for confirmation as Secretary of the Interior, newspapers here reported on Friday.
Colorado Governor Bill Ritter plans to announce Bennet as Salazar's replacement on Saturday, sources told the Rocky Mountain News and the Denver Post. Bennet will become the eighth Yale graduate in the Senate, joining Joseph Lieberman '64 LAW '67, John Kerry '66 and Arlen Specter LAW '56, among others.
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