U.S. Rep. Gary Peters expected to announce bid for Senate seat
U.S. Rep. Gary Peters is expected to announce his intention to run for Michigan’s soon-to-be-open U.S. Senate seat on Wednesday in Rochester Hills.
A Democratic source told the Free Press on Monday that Peters, who had been widely expected to run, would announce his intentions and visit several other cities around the state — including Flint, Lansing and Grand Rapids — this week.
Peters, a 54-year-old Democrat and former state senator and Michigan Lottery commissioner, is in his third term in Congress, winning in the new Detroit-based 14th Congressional District in 2012, even though he lives outside it in Bloomfield Township. In his two previous terms, he represented the 9th District based in Oakland County.
http://www.freep.com/article/20130429/NEWS06/304290104/U-S-Rep-Gary-Peters-expected-announce-bid-Senate-seat
