A career criminal, er, Democrat politician (a redundancy, I know), that is calling it quits?
Maybe he understands something coming in the near future that few of the rest of us have even glimpsed.
I'll start worrying when bankers start committing suicide.
Oh... wait.
/johnny
Why resign? Couldn’t he just announce that he will not run for another term? Resignation means a special election that will cost the taxpayers money. Oh, wait, he’s a Democrat. They don’t give a d**n about the taxpayers.