Breaking... Washington - Jennifer Dunn retiring

KING-5 | Telly

[djf]

Sadly, Jennifer Dunn is announcing her retirement.
Lady has way too much class to be a politician!

Just announced on KING-5 Seattle

[ConservativeMan55]

Forgive me...but what position does she hold?

[HAL9000]

Never heard of her.

[FairOpinion]

http://www.komotv.com/stories/29577.htm

Political Stunner: Jennifer Dunn To Retire

January 31, 2004

By KOMO Staff & News Services

OLYMPIA - Congresswoman Jennifer Dunn, Washington state's senior Republican in Congress and a favorite of the Bush White House, stirred up Washington's political scene Friday night by announcing she's retiring from politics.

The 61-year-old Dunn had been courted by President Bush to run for the U.S. Senate this fall. But she tells The Associated Press that she has decided to serve out her sixth House term and then retire from public life.

She says her decision was prompted by family considerations -- she's newly remarried -- and a desire for one more career after politics.

[Ramius]

She is a good republican force in the house. It will not be good to lose her.

I can only hope that she would be planning then to run for the Senate-- Murray's seat perhaps?

[Ramius]

Dang. I guess not.

This is a sad loss. We need somebody to fill her shoes, and I don't know if that person is around just now. We'll see.

[SeniorMoment]

http://www.house.gov/dunn/

Republican House of Representatives

[leadpenny]

Thread from last night: Dunn says she won't seek return to Congress

[dts32041]

If bush wanted her to run for the senate she must have been a good tax and spend pubbie.

[Eala]

She has, what, two more years in her term?

[Gritty]

ACU Ratings for Representative DUNN:
Year 2003	71
Year 2002	92
Lifetime	88
She has a reasonably conservative record, but seems to have fallen off in 2003.

[Eala]

ping

[snopercod]

Dunn is done?

[BibChr]

She was pro-abort, wasn't she?

What does it take to get a LOW rating?

Dan

[John W]

It would be interesting to know how the ACU scores things now that domestically we have no major conservative party.

[Eala]

Nope, she's up this year. I hope they can find somebody to trounce Heidi Behrens-Benedict.

[Atlas Sneezed]

and a desire for one more career after politics

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Translation:
It's time to put those political connections to good use, and make some real money?

[djf]

Pro-choice, not pro abort.

I remember the days before. I remember reading stories in the papers, almost weekly, about some woman being found dead in an alley, bled to death, because some idiot had perforated her uterus with a coat hanger.

I am not pro abortion. But I find it fantastically paradoxical that a party that tries to pride itself on letting people be responsible for themselves, and keeping their noses out of our business, says "Yeah, except for some gal's womb"

[KQQL]

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