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Michigan's John Dingell to Retire After Nearly 60 Years in House
New York Times ^ | 02/24/2014 | By ASHLEY PARKER

Posted on 02/24/2014 7:00:04 AM PST by SeekAndFind

WASHINGTON — Representative John D. Dingell Jr., Democrat of Michigan, the longest serving member of Congress in history, on Monday was expected to announce that he will not seek re-election in 2014, and will leave Congress in 2015.

Mr. Dingell, 87, has served in the House for more than 58 years, under 11 presidents.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Government; Politics/Elections; US: Michigan
KEYWORDS: 113th; 2014midterms; 60years; abouttime; demretires; dingell; dingellberry; dingleberry; johndingell; mi2014; michigan; retirement
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To: SeekAndFind
Free at Last!, Free at Last! LGA, Free at Last!

(The Dingell 'rat Family Plantation moved west enough to make me one of the Tax Slaves on the fam' plantation a number of years ago. The Plantation has been owned by the Dingell fam since ~ 1933. Massa Dingell never set us free.)

41 posted on 02/24/2014 8:06:34 AM PST by Paladin2
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To: SeekAndFind

Good riddance to one of the most crooked, racists pigs to ever visit the dc empire.


42 posted on 02/24/2014 8:07:13 AM PST by Neoliberalnot (Marxism works well only with the uneducated and the unarmed.)
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To: surrey

She is a spry 60. A youngster in comparison. A child really.


43 posted on 02/24/2014 8:09:55 AM PST by prof.h.mandingo (Buck v. Bell (1927) An idea whose time has come (for extreme liberalism))
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To: SeekAndFind

I’m 60 years old. This man first went to Congress when I was just out of diapers.

The Framers would consider a term that long to be an obscene affront to the foundational concepts of our form of government.


44 posted on 02/24/2014 8:11:52 AM PST by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: SoFloFreeper

Dingell-Norwood...

45 posted on 02/24/2014 8:12:04 AM PST by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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To: SeekAndFind

So what’s the official count now of Dem congresscritters who’ve decided to jump ship this November and flee the impending economic collapse and Obamacare tsunami they helped create?


46 posted on 02/24/2014 8:12:10 AM PST by DestroyLiberalism
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To: SeekAndFind

I always figured that his wife would run to replace him. She’s a big time Democrat Washington Lobbyist and is about 20 Yrs + his junior in age.


47 posted on 02/24/2014 8:12:36 AM PST by Old Retired Army Guy
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To: Windflier

He’s a lifer for sure.
His wife was a Wash DC based exec for GM, not sure if she is retired or not.


48 posted on 02/24/2014 8:13:26 AM PST by nascarnation (I'm hiring Jack Palladino to investigate Baraq's golf scores.)
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To: cripplecreek

Don’t be too sure. Is there a law against ex felons running? In his district, Darth Vader could get elected as long as he is black.


49 posted on 02/24/2014 8:14:22 AM PST by Old Retired Army Guy
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To: SeekAndFind

What, no stake through the heart?


50 posted on 02/24/2014 8:20:50 AM PST by martiangohome
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To: Din Maker

Conservatives, and the rest of the, possible, GOP political ideologies, haven’t found a successful way to, actually, win the most votes from within cities (with a few exceptions), especially from within the highest levels of political office and especially for many, consecutive election cycles in a row. From within all U.S. cities, whenever the GOP does win, they are usually RINO Republicans. This is an ongoing problem for all of conservatism where, even, the worldwide left has had a political foothold over the worldwide right in all cities, worldwide, from day one of political existence.


51 posted on 02/24/2014 8:35:25 AM PST by johnthebaptistmoore (The world continues to be stuck in a "all leftist, all of the time" funk. BUNK THE FUNK!)
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To: SeekAndFind

Ok...... been wanting to post this for years

What happens when John Dingle’s Daughter marries Marion Berry’s son?

Little dingleberries


52 posted on 02/24/2014 8:45:26 AM PST by bert ((K.E. N.P. N.C. +12 ..... History is a process, not an event)
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To: duckman

Agree......the Democrat Rats keep jumping ship!!! They know what’s coming in November, 2014!!!


53 posted on 02/24/2014 8:49:30 AM PST by JLAGRAYFOX ( My only objective is to defeat and destroy Obama & his Democrat Party, politically!!!.)
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To: Mouton

- Harry Reid (Creep-Nevada) is another bastard that played both sides with the National Rifle Association

- Like Joe “Boom-Boom” Biden he fathered more crooked Limo-Progressive sons to loot your assets and steal your land -


54 posted on 02/24/2014 8:56:35 AM PST by devolve (- as I reach the vinyl curtain - I shall continue to misspell simple words - but I did it - my whey)
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To: SeekAndFind

About damn dingle berry time.


55 posted on 02/24/2014 9:04:55 AM PST by b4its2late (A Progressive is a person who will give away everything he doesn't own.)
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To: SeekAndFind

another rat leaving a sinking ship, but it’s Michigan, what else are they going to put up but another dems


56 posted on 02/24/2014 9:05:57 AM PST by 12th_Monkey (One man one vote is a big fail, when the "one" man is an idiot.)
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To: madison10

Inherited power for America’s royals......


57 posted on 02/24/2014 9:10:40 AM PST by clintonh8r (Don't twerk me, Broi)
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To: SeekAndFind

” He (Dingdell) rose to the rank of Second Lieutenant and received orders to take part in the first wave of a planned invasion of Japan in November 1945; the Congressman has said President Truman’s decision to use the atomic bomb to end the war saved his life.”

Here’s another reason to despise that little twerp Harry-A$$ed Truman. As my father used to say “ How are Harry Truman and and automatic transmission similar? Answer: They are both shiftless.”


58 posted on 02/24/2014 9:14:12 AM PST by vette6387
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To: SeekAndFind

Reminds me of a CDC statistic that would list a 95 year old man’s cause of death as “smoking”.


59 posted on 02/24/2014 9:16:35 AM PST by TurboZamboni (Marx smelled bad and lived with his parents .)
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To: SeekAndFind

He and most ‘lifers’ suffers from social agoraphobia when it comes to ‘leaving the House’.


60 posted on 02/24/2014 9:19:15 AM PST by RetSignman
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