By JAMES HOHMANN, POLITICO – Former Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm announced Friday that she will not get in the race to succeed retiring Democratic Sen. Carl Levin.

“Friends, thanks for all of the encouragement on the Michigan Senate seat, but I’m not going to run,” Granholm wrote on Facebook late Friday. “I appreciate all of the outreach I’ve received; for several reasons it’s just not right for us (it’s a family decision). My best to all the contenders — Levin’s US Senate seat will stay blue!”

The two main Democratic contenders for the seat are now Rep. Gary Peters and Debbie Dingell, wife of Rep. John Dingell.

Granholm is currently a visiting professor of law and public policy at the University of California-Berkeley. She served as governor for two terms, leaving office in 2011.

The governor, who gave the most energetic speech of last summer’s Democratic National Convention, was a host of her own show on Current TV until the network was sold to Al Jazeera.

A dean of the Michigan political press corps, Tim Skubick, wrote in a column earlier Friday that she would never run because the Senate is not a good fit.

“Ms. Granholm has been a life-long creature of the executive branch of government first in Wayne County, then as state Attorney General and then as governor,” Skubick wrote for MLive.com. “The Senate is the complete antithesis of who she is: A take-charge, jump in, get something done and move onto something else kind of gal. Nobody has ever described that august body in Washington in those terms.”

via Jennifer Granholm: No run for Carl Levin’s seat – James Hohmann – POLITICO.com.