Inside Politics

Georgia candidate

Andrew Young, the former Atlanta mayor, U.S. representative and ambassador to the United Nations, plans to seek the Democratic nomination to succeed Sen. Zell Miller, a maverick Democrat who is retiring next year.

“My children are secure financially, but my grandchildren — the kind of debt we’re building up, the kind of confusion we’re creating in the global order, is a threat to my grandchildren’s security,” Mr. Young told the New York Times. “I have a feeling that we really don’t know what we’re doing.”

Mr. Young said his decision to seek a U.S. Senate seat came about last month when he was flying home after leading a conference in Lagos, Nigeria. A few former representatives on the plane, all of them white Democrats, urged him to run, “saying his stature would make him unique among freshmen senators,” reporter David M. Halbfinger writes.

Mr. Young, 71, who is black, would need nearly 40 percent of the white vote and an overwhelming black turnout, unidentified “political experts” told the reporter.

Mr. Young plans a formal announcement in September.

Janklow’s anguish

Republican Rep. Bill Janklow says he feels “anguish” about the death of a motorcyclist who collided with a car he was driving. Authorities said the intersection had a stop sign for only Mr. Janklow, and an investigation was continuing.

Mr. Janklow, 63, a former four-term South Dakota governor in his first congressional term, sustained minor injuries in Saturday’s crash but didn’t require medical attention, said Col. Dan Mosteller, the head of the state highway patrol.

Randolph E. Scott, 55, of Hardwick, Minn., was pronounced dead at the scene, Col. Mosteller said.

Authorities said the intersection had a stop sign on the road Mr. Janklow was on, but did not immediately indicate whether they thought he had run it or stopped and then not seen the approaching cyclist. Col. Mosteller said an accident report would be available “in a couple of days,” the Associated Press reports.

Mr. Janklow said in a statement Sunday that he was recovering from his injuries at home.

“Personally, and on behalf of my family, we feel as much anguish for this gentleman and his family and friends as is humanly possible,” Mr. Janklow said, adding that any more comment at this time would be inappropriate.

Russ Janklow, the congressman’s son, said his father “feels absolutely horrible about this.”

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