Daily Kos notes that Kwesi Mfume has announced he will run for the Maryland Senate seat being vacated by Sen. Paul Sarbanes. He will make an excellent Senator, he was a terrific Congressman. The Washington Post reports,

Mfume, a Baltimore native, was elected to serve Maryland's 7th Congressional Distict in 1986. His decade in the U.S. House of Representatives included a stint as chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus. He became president and chief executive officer of the NAACP in February 1996 and retired from that post at the end of last year.

Here's his platform statement:

He said his campaign would focus on "overcrowded and ill-equipped schools," health-care costs and disparities and fighting "low expectations" for some youths.

Like Kos, I'm a big Kwesi Mfume fan.