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Republican Gallagher, who voted against impeaching Mayorkas, to leave Congress
Washington Times ^ | 10 February 2024 | Alex Miller

Posted on 02/11/2024 4:36:42 AM PST by Sam77

Rep. Mike Gallagher, one of the three Republicans who voted against impeaching Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas this week, announced he won’t seek reelection this year.

Mr. Gallagher, Wisconsin Republican, said on X Saturday that he intends for his eight-year tenure in Congress to be a “high-intensity deployment,” similar to his career in the Marine Corps.

“Electoral politics was never supposed to be a career and, trust me, Congress is no place to grow old,” Mr. Gallagher said. “And so, with a heavy heart, I have decided not to run for reelection.”

The 39-year-old lawmaker was considered a rising star in the Republican Party, building a brand as a top national security and foreign policy hawk. Last year, he was tapped to chair the high-profile Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party.

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1 posted on 02/11/2024 4:36:42 AM PST by Sam77
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To: Sam77

What a DISAPPOINTMENT he turned out to be!! he had a GREAT FUTURE!


2 posted on 02/11/2024 4:39:07 AM PST by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Sam77

Is he compromised; WI must do better.


3 posted on 02/11/2024 4:42:03 AM PST by Theodore R. ( )
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To: Ann Archy

Maybe it’s best he leave.


4 posted on 02/11/2024 4:44:56 AM PST by Sir_Humphrey (The “only Trumpers” are just as damaging to the conservative cause as are the “never Trumpers”)
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To: Theodore R.

Blackmailed, I suspect....to deliver the vote.


5 posted on 02/11/2024 4:46:43 AM PST by pepsionice
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To: Sam77

He got his rino pockets filled.


6 posted on 02/11/2024 4:47:47 AM PST by chopperk (e )
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To: Sam77

Impeachment is too easy for Homeland Security Snakehead. Security??? Who will protectus from our protectors?


7 posted on 02/11/2024 4:51:00 AM PST by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: Sam77

It is amazing how many congressmen decide to retire right after they do something that goes against what their constituents want so there are calls for them to be primaried. They must know they really screwed up and will lose their next election.


8 posted on 02/11/2024 4:55:11 AM PST by Trumpette1954 (Live laugh love!)
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To: chopperk

We can’t win with these dozen and a half or so RINOs stabbing us in the back every other week.

Todd Young aka Turd Scum is another one.

We need a coup of the Republican leadership, bloodless if possible of course.


9 posted on 02/11/2024 5:05:36 AM PST by Phoenix8
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To: pepsionice
>>Blackmailed, I suspect....to deliver the vote.<<

More likely he was persona non grata along with his staff.
10 posted on 02/11/2024 5:07:35 AM PST by EliRoom8
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To: Sam77

Is there a decent candidate in the wings to run for that seat?


11 posted on 02/11/2024 5:16:16 AM PST by spacejunkie2001
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To: spacejunkie2001

Here’s what the locals should do.

First, refuse to allow Deep State to pick your candidates for you.

Second, if nobody decent will volunteer to run, find someone for each party who will run as a “none of the above candidate”. Someone who will refuse to serve after winning. Hold special election after special election until someone other than a Deep Stater gets in.


12 posted on 02/11/2024 5:21:18 AM PST by mewzilla (Never give up; never surrender!)
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To: pepsionice

Well...let’s look at HIS financial records!


13 posted on 02/11/2024 5:39:58 AM PST by SMARTY ("A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies." Tennyson)
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To: Sam77
Bye, Traitor.

One can only imagine the volume of phone calls and emails he got that would have made it pretty obvious his career was finished.

But then that really makes him look like a dolt. What did he think would happen? Is he really that far out of touch?

14 posted on 02/11/2024 5:46:51 AM PST by HandBasketHell
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To: HandBasketHell

Snort let the door hit you.


15 posted on 02/11/2024 5:51:56 AM PST by Mouton (150MTs in the right location will not solve our problems now.)
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To: Sir_Humphrey

Bridges, once burned, are hard to cross back over later.

And this was a bridge too far that caught flame after passage.


16 posted on 02/11/2024 6:00:06 AM PST by alloysteel (Most people slog through life without ever knowing the wonders of true insanity.)
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To: Sam77

He will get filthy rich as a lobbyist.

Hope he goes to Washington DC the day it gets nuked. /spit


17 posted on 02/11/2024 6:00:17 AM PST by Flavious_Maximus (Tony Fauci will be put on death row and die of COVID!)
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To: Sam77

Watch and see what board of directors job he ends up with in the next few months. That’ll tell you who bought his vote in this Mayorkas impeachment.


18 posted on 02/11/2024 6:07:22 AM PST by GaryCrow
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To: Sam77

19 posted on 02/11/2024 6:11:54 AM PST by Sicon ("All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." - G. Orwell>)
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To: Sam77

So which came first? Vote or Retirement Decision?


20 posted on 02/11/2024 6:17:43 AM PST by Brandonmark (November 2024 cannot come soon enough!)
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