Lou Holtz Considers Congress

Lou Holtz is best known for being the outspoken commentator and ex-coach of Notre Dame. Today, he announced that he might get into politics as well. Holtz is considering running for one of the Congress seats in Florida as a Republican. The GOP seat he’d go after is currently held by Democrat U.S. Representative Suzanne Kosmas.

Holtz may be a grid iron demi-god, but he doesn’t have any government experience. At 72, he has never run for office before. After coaching at Notre Dame and South Carolina, he retired at the end of the 2004 season and became an analyst at ESPN.

Chairman of Orlando’s Orange County Republican Executive Committee Lew Oliver says that the Republican leaders in Florida are surprised that Holtz is considering running, since he hasn’t been involved in the party in the past.

Holtz won’t have an easy run if he does decide to pursue the seat. Two Republican legislators from Florida and a local Orlando commissioner have already confirmed that they’ll be running for the Republican nomination.

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