by RICHARD E. BERG-ANDERSSON
TheGreenPapers.com Staff

GROUP I. POTENTIAL PRESIDENTIAL TIMBER
(or, at the very least, serious VICE-PRESIDENTIAL consideration!)

Albert A. "Al" Gore, Jr. of TENNESSEE (2000 Presidential Nominee)

B. GOVERNORS who will be serving in at least their second term by the time of the next Presidential Election

[NOTE: Those listed in boldface are in Governor's Chairs up for re-election in 2002/2003 and will have to win re-election in order to remain on this list]

ALABAMA's Don Siegelman
CALIFORNIA's Gray Davis
GEORGIA's Roy Barnes
INDIANA's Frank O'Bannon
IOWA's Tom Vilsack
MISSISSIPPI's Ronnie Musgrove
SOUTH CAROLINA's Jim Hodges
WASHINGTON's Gary Locke

C. UNITED STATES SENATORS who were first elected to that body prior to the last Presidential Election

[NOTE: Those listed in boldface are in Senate seats up for re-election in 2002 and will have to win re-election in order to remain on this list... also, those in italics (whether boldface italics or not) are former GOVERNORS, which is actually something of a "plus"]

ARKANSAS' Blanche Lambert Lincoln
CALIFORNIA's Barbara Boxer
CALIFORNIA's Dianne Feinstein
CONNECTICUT's Christopher Dodd
CONNECTICUT's Joe Lieberman (2000 Vice-Presidential Nominee)
DELAWARE's Joe Biden
FLORIDA's Bob Graham
GEORGIA's Max Cleland
HAWAII's Daniel Akaka
HAWAII's Daniel Inouye
ILLINOIS' Richard Durbin
INDIANA's Evan Bayh
IOWA's Tom Harkin
LOUISIANA's John Breaux
LOUISIANA's Mary Landrieu
MARYLAND's Barbara Mikulski
MARYLAND's Paul Sarbanes
MASSACHUSETTS' Ted Kennedy
MASSACHUSETTS' John Kerry
MICHIGAN's Carl Levin
MINNESOTA's Paul Wellstone
MONTANA's Max Baucus
NEVADA's Harry Reid
NEW JERSEY's Bob Torricelli
NEW MEXICO's Jeff Bingaman
NEW YORK's Chuck Schumer
NORTH CAROLINA's John Edwards
NORTH DAKOTA's Kent Conrad
NORTH DAKOTA's Byron Dorgan
OREGON's Ron Wyden
RHODE ISLAND's Jack Reed
SOUTH CAROLINA's Fritz Hollings
SOUTH DAKOTA's Tom Daschle
SOUTH DAKOTA's Tim Johnson
VERMONT's Patrick Leahy
WASHINGTON's Patty Murray
WEST VIRGINIA Robert Byrd
WEST VIRGINIA's Jay Rockefeller
WISCONSIN's Russ Feingold
WISCONSIN's Herbert Kohl

D. GOVERNORS who recently have/will either voluntarily retired OR who could not/will not be able run for re-election due to Term Limits AND, in addition, are not seeking election to the U.S. Senate

[NOTE: NEW HAMPSHIRE's Governor Jeanne Shaheen is running for the U.S. Senate in 2002 and, if elected, would be added to Section B of GROUP II below]

ALASKA's Tony Knowles
HAWAII's Ben Cayetano
KENTUCKY's Paul Patton
MARYLAND's Parris Glendening
OREGON's John Kitzhaber
VERMONT's Howard Dean

GROUP II. VICE-PRESIDENTIAL FODDER at best

A. GOVERNORS elected to their first term at the time of or since the last Presidential Election

[NOTE: This list will be added to as and if new Democrat Governors are elected in the 2002 Elections]

DELAWARE's Ruth Ann Minner
MISSOURI's Bob Holden
NEW JERSEY's Jim McGreevey
NORTH CAROLINA's Mike Easley
VIRGINIA's Mark Warner
WEST VIRGINIA's Bob Wise

B. UNITED STATES SENATORS first elected to that body at the time of or since the last Presidential Election

[NOTE: This list will be added to as and if new Democrat U.S. Senators are elected in the 2002 Elections... those listed in boldface are in Senate seats up for re-election in 2002 and will have to win re-election in order to remain on this list... also, those in italics are former GOVERNORS, which is actually something of a "plus"]

DELAWARE's Thomas Carper
FLORIDA's Bill Nelson
GEORGIA's Zell Miller
MICHIGAN's Debbie Stabenow
MINNESOTA's Mark Dayton
MISSOURI's Jean Carnahan
NEBRASKA's Ben Nelson
NEW JERSEY's Jon Corzine
NEW YORK's Hillary Rodham Clinton
WASHINGTON's Maria Cantwell