CNBC’s Kudlow says he’s not entering politics

Larry Kudlow

Bill Hoffmann of NewsMax reports that CNBC‘s Larry Kudlow has put cold water on running for political office.

Hoffman writes, “‘I love my work. I love my TV show. I love my radio show … You want put me in the Senate? Why would you do that to me? I thought you were my pal,’ Kudlow scolded Newsmax TV’s Steve Malzberg when asked about the rumors.

“Kudlow, who was associate director for economics and planning in the Office of Management and Budget under the Reagan administration, has flirted with running in the past, but has always backed off.

“In March 2009, after rumors surfaced he was considering a run for U.S. Senate in Connecticut against Christopher Dodd, he announced that he wasn’t on his TV show.

“In January 2010, a movement to draft Kudlow to challenge Sen. Chuck Schumer of New York, briefly elicited Kudlow’s interest. He stated, ‘I do believe that retiring Sen. Schumer would be a noble cause,’ but went no further.”

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Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.