SAN DIEGO MAYOR PURSUING SENATE.Byline: Associated Press Associated Press: see news agency. Associated Press (AP) Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. Mayor Susan Golding Susan G. Golding (born August 1945) is an American Republican politician from California, best-known as the former two-term mayor of San Diego. She is currently president and CEO of the Golding Group, a strategy consulting firm and a Senior Fellow of Public Policy at the University launched her U.S. Senate campaign Tuesday by filing committee papers and declaring it was ``time to move forward.'' A Republican, she joins a widening GOP field seeking to challenge Democratic incumbent Sen. Barbara Boxer Barbara Levy Boxer (born November 11, 1940) is an American politician and the current junior U.S. Senator from the State of California. A member of the Democratic Party, Boxer was first elected to the U.S. . Golding was re-elected mayor of the state's second-largest city last year with 78 percent of the vote. ``One of the reasons I started thinking about doing this is because my hands have been tied so often because of the federal laws and regulations,'' she said in a telephone interview. On March 31, Golding formed an exploratory campaign committee. She already has raised over $100,000, according to her campaign consultant, George Gorton. Golding, 51, filed federal election committee papers Tuesday which formalized for·mal·ize tr.v. for·mal·ized, for·mal·iz·ing, for·mal·iz·es 1. To give a definite form or shape to. 2. a. To make formal. b. her campaign committee. Boxer is not expected to be challenged within her own party. San Diego City Hall has a history of being a steppingstone step·ping·stone n. 1. A stone that provides a place to step, as in crossing a stream. 2. An advantageous position for advancement toward a goal. to Washington. Republican Gov. Pete Wilson served as mayor from 1971 until he won a U.S. Senate seat in 1982. Wilson was elected governor in 1990. Term limits prohibit him from running again next year. Attorney General Dan Lungren, who already has grabbed a strong lead in name recognition and campaign funds, is so far running unopposed for the Republican gubernatorial nomination. |
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