He was a state senator gunning for the U.S. Senate, not yet famous.
Clinton contends Obama has a pattern of avoiding difficult issues, beginning with his record as a state senator in Illinois.
Eddie Lucio junior, a long-serving state senator from Brownsville, argues that the biggest troublemakers now are unscrupulous developers, who can be regulated only by the state.
I don't think we'll see an outright ban in my lifetime in California, "says Joe Simitian, a state senator who has written California's three laws against distracted driving."
Massey's plea agreement says he offered a state senator $1 million for a favorable vote, and he authorized his assistant to tell the lawmaker as much as $2 million of Gilley's money was available.
In November Robert Hurt, a popular state senator, aims to recapture the seat for the Republicans.
At the same time, there are competitors such as Sharon Angle, a former state senator who advocated anti-tax reform.
Nor is it even the accelerated speed of his ascent, a state senator in 2004 elected President just four years later.
Jud Gilbert, a Michigan state senator who opposes film subsidies, points out that if he could offer a 42% rebate on car production, that industry would not be in crisis.
Ann Henry taught at the Business School; her husband, Morriss, was an ophthalmologist and our state senator.
The Arizona state senator who sponsored SB1070, Russell Pearce, is also Mormon, which has led to speculation that this is why the Mormon Church has not yet expressed a moral opinion on the matter.
The solution, one Republican state senator helpfully averred, was for the governor to resign.
Jake Knotts, a state senator, opined on a chat show broadcast from a bar: "we already got one raghead in the White House; we don't need a raghead in the governor's mansion."
Having left the Senate in 2004 he has spent less time making laws (six years) than Barack Obama, who was a state senator for eight years and has been a senator in Washington for two and a half.
She became an Arizona state senator.
Wayne Bryant, a former state senator, is due to be sentenced for fraud and bribery on Friday.
