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Another swing district Republican bails out... (Original Post)
brooklynite
Sep 2017
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OnDoutside
(19,965 posts)1. What's the benefit to him ? Financial ?
irisblue
(33,011 posts)6. Fron Freep.com, hometown paper sez "spend time with family"
not a very long article there.
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)7. Any word on whether his family wants to spend more time with him?
Just kidding, they probably don't.
yortsed snacilbuper
(7,939 posts)9. "Just kidding, they probably don't."
When he was a kid his dad had to tie a pork chop around his neck so the family dog, would play with him.
awesomerwb1
(4,268 posts)2. Great news.
Now hopefully we're smart and we get a good candidate who can win in that district.
Lee Adama
(90 posts)3. The more GOP Representatives fro swing districts that retire, the merrier.
Bleacher Creature
(11,257 posts)4. Preemptive retirements are often an early sign of a wave election.
It's still WAY too early to predict anything that will happen in November 2018, but this is a great sign.
berni_mccoy
(23,018 posts)5. That's really good news.
Jim Lane
(11,175 posts)10. The district is slightly Republican.
Romney and Trump each carried the district, but each by only five percentage points. Our chances obviously improve when the Republican candidate won't have the advantage of incumbency.