CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — The man dethroned as the U.S. Senate’s majority leader in 2004 will headline the year’s key fundraising event for West Virginia’s Democratic Party.
With Democrats nationwide facing a difficult election climate, the state party has picked Tom Daschle as the keynote speaker for its April 17 Jefferson-Jackson Dinner.
The South Dakota Democrat was first elected to the U.S. House in 1978, and then won a Senate seat in 1996. From 1994 until his defeat he served alternately as minority and majority leader of that chamber.
President Barack Obama nominated Daschle to be his Health and Human Services secretary upon taking office. Daschle withdrew from consideration amid news that he failed to pay $128,000 in taxes. He now works for the DLA Piper lobbying firm.
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