Ed Royce's Retirement from Congress Has OC Democrats Giddy
Representative Ed Royce (R-Brea) has announced his retirement—with a not-so-veiled shot at Vladimir Putin.
That's stunning when you consider the only Orange County Member of Congress to serve in the House longer—Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-Huntington Beach)—is considered Putin's favorite congressman, so much so that it has dragged Rohrabacher into special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
"In this final year of my Foreign Affairs Committee chairmanship," writes Royce, who was first elected to Congress in 1993, in a statement, "I want to focus fully on the urgent threats facing our nation, including: the brutal, corrupt and dangerous regimes in Pyongyang and Tehran, Vladimir Putin's continued efforts to weaponize information to fracture western democracies, and growing terrorist threats in Africa and Central Asia. With his in mind, and with the support of my wife Marie, I have decided not to seek reelection in November."
Rohrabacher, who joined Congress in 1989, claims to have received information from exiled Wikileaks founder Julian Assange that exonerates Putin and Russia from having meddled in U.S. elections. But Rohrabacher's coziness with Putin/Russia prompted Royce to reign in his fellow Orange County lawmaker's chairmanship of the Europe subcommittee.
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