Scott Romney Won't Seek Senate Seat

Michigan's next U.S. senator may still be from the Bloomfield area, but it won't be Scott Romney, a Bloomfield Hills resident and brother to 2012 Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney.

According to the Michigan Information & Research Service, Romney said on Tuesday he won't run for Carl Levin's seat in the U.S. Senate. Levin announced last week that he won't seek a seventh term in 2014.

The Huffington Post reported that Romney said it was a "tough decision," but that 2014 just wasn't the right time to run for the 71-year-old, a corporate attorney at the Detroit office of Honigman Miller Schwartz and Cohn.

Romney was a likely front-runner for Levin's seat as early as Monday, when Murray Communications released a poll about Republicans rumored to be interested in the seat.

Romney garnered 348 votes, good for roughly 30 percent of the total number of participants, the data showed. Technically, that trailed the 31 percent Rogers received among 1,170 likely Republican voters that participated in the automated survey Monday. However, the poll had a margin of error of 2.86 percent.

Who's Out?

• Michigan Lt. Gov. Brian Calley
• Clark Durant
• U.S. Rep. Candace Miller
• Scott Romney
• Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette

Who's Still In?

• U.S. Rep. Mike Rogers
• U.S. Rep. Justin Amash
• Former Michigan Secretary of State Terri Lynn Land
• State Sen. Pete Lund
• Former Michigan Republican Party Chairman Saul Anuzis