Sen. Salazar cites potential VP candidates

"A Discussion Among the Nation's Governors" during the Democratic Leadership Council in Denver in July 2006 featured, from left to right: Wash. Gov. Chris Gregoire; Ariz. Gov. Janet Napolitano, and New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson. (Denver Post file photo)

Asked about potential vice-presidential candidates for Barack Obama, U.S. Sen. Ken Salazar, D-Colo., listed three during an interview Monday with TV host Aaron Harber: Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano; General Wesley Clark; and New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson.

(A name not mentioned was Sen. Jim Webb, D-Virginia, whom Salazar all but endorsed in late February as a vice presidential candidate. Read more here.)

Prior to citing Napolitano, Clark and Richardson in the interview, Salazar was asked what would be his reaction if he himself were asked to be Obama’s running mate. Salazar said he would accept, adding, “I don’t spend a lot of time thinking about it.”

Salazar recalled Obama coming to Colorado in 2004 to help Salazar campaign for U.S. Senate. Obama, of Illinois, and Salazar were the only freshman Democrats elected to the Senate that year.

“We lived in the same building for two years” in Washington, D.C., Salazar said. “We worked out together.”

The interview with Salazar will soon appear on www.senateco.com, the “Senate In Balance” Web site, featuring Harber’s interviews with past and present U.S. senators, as well as with Republican Bob Schaffer and Democrat Mark Udall, who are bidding for Colorado’s open U.S. Senate seat.

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