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Bekki Cook To Come Out of Retirement to Run for Lt. Governor
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| Contributor | Stephen Yellin |
| Last Edited | Stephen Yellin Sep 15, 2003 08:16pm |
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| Category | Commentary |
| Media | Newspaper - St. Louis Post Dispatch |
| News Date | Monday, September 15, 2003 06:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Bekki Cook retired hungry when she stepped down in January 2001 after six years as Missouri secretary of state.
She'd sorely wanted to run in November 2000 for lieutenant governor but had opted against joining a nasty multicandidate Democratic primary eventually won by Joe Maxwell, who now holds the office.
Rumors were rife at the time that Cook, as a sitting state officeholder, was leaving politics reluctantly and nursing irritation that party leaders hadn't championed her for the state's No. 2 spot.
So at 50, Cook returned with her family to Cape Girardeau. She had practiced law there with her husband before Gov. Mel Carnahan tapped Cook in late December 1994 to step in as secretary of state. She replaced Judi Moriarty, who had been forced out by the state Supreme Court for misdeeds. |
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