Posted on 08/15/2007 1:52:37 PM PDT by youthgonewild
Rep. Deborah Pryce (R-Ohio) will announce Thursday that she will not run for reelection in 2008, according to sources close to the congresswoman’s office.
Pryce’s office announced it will hold a press conference in her Columbus office on Thursday at 11 a.m. concerning her plans for 2008.
The timing of Pryce’s impending retirement comes largely as a surprise. A former leader of the GOP’s ousted majority, she is in her eighth term but is only 56 years old — much younger than many of the prospective Republican retirees.
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Why couldn’t Pryce stay, while morons like Don Young and Ted Stevens go?
Pryce is not much better than Stevens or Young. I am glad she is gone.
What is it they say of sinking ships?
That they’re infested with termites?
Ted Stevens may wind up being indicted, which makes it a little harder to keep his seat. At least the governor is a Republican.
Her American Conservative Union rating for ‘06 was 72;
about the same as a couple of Texas Democrats I can name.
Good riddance.
I’m in Pryce’s district, the 15th, which has been held by a Republican since at least 1967 (and maybe even longer.) The political make-up here has changed considerably in the last ten years largely because the Ohio Republican Party and the Franklin County Party got fat, lazy, moderate and accustomed to GOP incumbency. And the consequences have been devastating — the Republicans were unable to field a Columbus mayoral candidate against the Democrat incumbent in 2003; John Kerry won Franklin County in 2004; Democrats won the governor’s office and every other statewide constitutional office in 2006; and, also in 2006, the 15th congressional district was nearly lost to an ultra left winger after a recount.
Ohio’s 15th congressional district is ripe for Democrat pickin’ next year. And don’t look to the Ohio and county GOP organizations nor to the National Republican Congressional Committee to fend off the Democrats’ grab for the 15th.
If we conservatives are going to foil the Dims’ designs on the 15th district, we need to get work now finding an authentic, passionate Reagan conservative to stand for election. If we can field such a candidate, I have no doubt that the day after the 2008 general election, we’ll all be celebrating victory and laughing at the traditional Democrat accusations of voter fraud. :)
If Stevens had any brain cells working, he would retire.
Oh for the day when there were citizen legislatures, when a person would SERVE for a few years, then go back to their real life.
Strivers has already declined to run
btt
Politicians are always amazed that ANY politician would willingly leave office. They cannot conceive of a life outside of the Beltway.
He may be indicted, but regardless, Ted Stevens has been one of the most steadfast and vociferous defenders of the 2nd Amendment in the 20th century (and the 21st for that matter) in what has been at times a very unfriendly Congress for gun owners. He's in Alaska and I'm all the way down here in Miami, FL. He stood by me, I'll stand by him.
Former AG Jim Petro is reportedly, but uncomfirmed by the Drive By Media to be running.
The Ohio Democrat Party website is already attacking him.
Petro would be another Bob Ney, no thanks.
While I am bitter at Jim Petro for the unnecessary primary challenge to my hero Ken Blackwell, the "corruption investigation" never materialized and therefor was probably nothing more than a smear cooked up by Summit County Chairman Arshnikoff.
Well, we know Arshinkoff is a clymer(and rumored to play for the other side, if you know what I mean)but Petro will be forever linked to the corrupt Taft administration.
Funny Ohio Dem attack blog on Petro already here
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