Former State Treasurer Sarah Steelman will most likely run for the U.S. Senate in 2010, but a formal announcement is not expected soon, the KY3 Political Notebook has learned.

Two Republican sources close to Steelman say after weeks of laying the groundwork, Steelman is "very, very likely" going to run for outgoing Sen. Kit Bond's seat.

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ABC News' Teddy Davis reports:

Fmr. Missouri treasurer Sarah Steeleman is weighing a 2010 GOP Senate primary against Rep. Roy Blunt, the former House Whip.Former Missouri state Treasurer Sarah Steelman, 50, and her husband stopped by ABC's Washington Bureau on Friday. teelman is weighing a Senate primary bid against Rep. Roy Blunt, R-Mo., for the seat being vacated in 2010 by retiring Sen. Kit Bond, R-Mo. teelman was recently described by a GOP operative in Missouri as "Sarah Palin with an economics degree."

What does Steelman think of the comparison?

"You might want to ask my husband that. I don't know. I am who I am," said Steelman, who earned her master's in economics from the University of Missouri. 

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February 10, 2009 JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) -- Former Republican Sen. Jim Talent of Missouri won't run for the Senate in 2010.

Talent had been considering the race after Republican Sen. Kit Bond announced last month that he won't seek re-election.

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By Clifford D. May

What can you, an average citizen, do to help defend America against terrorists sworn to our destruction? How about not investing in them?

A campaign to cut off such investments is gaining momentum. The Center for Security Policy, a Washington think tank, has organized a “Divest Terrorism Initiative” — a campaign to persuade pension funds, college endowments, 401(k) plans, retirement account managers, and individual investors to make sure their money is not used to support regimes that underwrite terrorism.

Highest on the priority list: Iran, Sudan, Syria and North Korea. These countries have been sanctioned by the United States government as sponsors of terrorism, said Sarah Steelman, the Treasurer of Missouri, the first state in the nation whose pension fund has divested from companies doing business with terrorist masters. Investing in terrorist countries is not acceptable to the citizens or the public employees of Missouri.

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Who is this woman and why should you care? Former Missouri State Treasurer Sarah Steelman is strongly believed to be prepping for a run for the seat that Senator Kit Bond is vacating in 2010. She’s a former Economics professor at Lincoln University, an historically black college, and is considered a fairly down-the-line conservative. As treasurer, she was the first in the nation to support the Terror-Free Fund, divesting money from state sponsors of terrorism like Iran and Syria. She narrowly lost the primary for the nomination for governor last year after stepping down as state treasurer. If she runs for Senate, her main competition in the primary will be Representative Roy Blunt.

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