D.G. Martin has a few reasons why Roy Cooper may not run.
The retired university administrator, who ran in the Democratic Senate primary in 1998, outlined a few of the obvious reasons the attorney general would run for Senate in a column today: A strong profile, a fighting chance and ambition.
But he also gave a few reasons Cooper might decide against it:
Cooper likes his current work as Attorney General. He is in charge of his office and its considerable resources. He knows that U.S. Senators, for all their prestige and influence, have a hard time getting big things done. Terry Sanford, for instance, found his Senate service to be a frustrating experience for a "man of action."
He also noted that Cooper would have to spend a lot of time fundraising and would have to spent time away from his three daughters.
"The prospect of leaving them for substantial times while he goes back and forth to Washington could clinch a decision not to run," he writes.
Martin's son, Grier, was recruited to run for U.S. Senate in 2007, but decided against it becaues of family issues.
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