Dawson Bell again reports, in a weekly roundup, that Saul Anuzis asked Jennifer Gratz and Jane Abraham to run for US Senate. Here's the clip:

"I was taken off guard ... and flattered. But I haven't given any thought to running for anything," she said. Although still an official resident of Michigan, Gratz is spending a lot of time in California working on plans for affirmative action ballot proposals in as many as 10 states in 2008.

Abraham, spouse of former U.S. Sen. Spence and cochair of the state party who considered a Senate run in 2006, also made a point Tuesday of squelching speculation about her plans for 2008. She said she's focused on parenting (three kids at home), business and building the party but not on running.

No surprise there. Abraham likely considers her status in the party to be higher than running for a losing seat, and while Gratz might benefit (and literally might be the only non-Democrat in Michigan capable of beating Levin) from such a run at this stage in her career, if she wanted to enter Michigan politics she'd be doing herself a disservice by not running for a state House seat she'd be favored to win (and where she could do Republicans tremendous good in 2008), rather than what would still be a longshot US Senate seat bid.

The likely Republican candidate for US Senate at this point still appears to be Kalamazoo state representative Jack Hoogendyk, unless someone bigger wants to take on the sacrificial lamb role or he decides against it. I'd expect more of the field to crystallize by August.

Also in the roundup, Geoffrey Fieger won his appeal to the Michigan Supreme Court to a Court of Appeals ruling on the amount of his contingency fees in a case despite his request of the Court to recuse 4 of its 7 members.