Posted at 11:13 AM on January 3, 2007
by Tom Scheck
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The AP has the story...
WASHINGTON (AP) - U-S Senator Mark Dayton says he's considering a run for governor in 2010.
Dayton stresses that a decision on whether he'll run is two years ago.
The Minnesota Democrat made that revelation in a conference call with reporters in his final hour as senator.
Dayton says he only recently began thinking about a race for governor. He says he thought D-F-L'er Mike Hatch was going to win last year's race for governor, but Hatch narrowly lost to Republican incumbent Tim Pawlenty.
Dayton is a multimillionaire who self-funded his own race for Senate in 2000.
He says he hasn't decided on how he would finance a gubernatorial campaign -- and he hasn't reached out to potential backers.
(Copyright 2007 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
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