Posted on 07/31/2019 8:32:54 AM PDT by Coronal
While the 2020 election is still more than a year away, a number of House Republicans —just months into their current term—have announced they will not be seeking reelection.
With his Monday announcement, Rep. Rob Bishop of Utah became the latest Republican member of the House to announce he will not run in 2020. Bishop joins three others who have declared similar intentions in the past two weeks alone: five-term Rep. Martha Roby of Alabama, six-term Rep. Pete Olson of Texas, and two-term Rep. Paul Mitchell of Michigan.
There are now a total of eight Republicans who are retiring in 2020, including Rep. Susan Brooks of Indiana and Rep. Rob Woodall of Georgia. Rep. Tom Marino also resigned from his post in January—just two weeks after being sworn in. (He was replaced by another Republican in a special election, Rep. Fred Keller.)
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Who voluntarily walks away from such a cushy job as Representative? What’s really going on here?
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My guess is frustration, lobbyist job or heading out to the booming private sector.
Well, there’s some big money to be made by former congressmen as lobbyists. There’s money they get from being talking heads on cable news channels.
Paul Ryan said he wanted more time with the family as his kids were growing up. He had never moved his family to Washington; they stayed behind in Wisconsin while he was in Congress.
The Rats will be campaigning on those seats like flies on you know what.
No to worry...The donkeys don’t know how many genders there are.
“Mr. President, we might have won the war but the Free French were homesick and Monty wanted to retire. No big.”
Romans 1:18-32
Well.. they mow have their lifetime healthcare, any campaign funds.. and yeah, a revolving door at GSachs and other places.
I have respect for anyone who has served less than 3 terms and is done.
The lifers, not so much.
Lefties are seriously on the March. A group called Restore the Public Trust is already bombarding the airways with negative ads against Scott Perry who they failed to pick off last time with the Lefty minister.
Getting rid of the deadwood.
I was thinking blackmail
This can be good. We need to replace them with real,conservatives not RINOs.
The globalists can’t take the new nationalism. If I can read anything into this evolving situation then the GOP might actually be headed towards becoming a nationalist party. Maybe?
Who voluntarily walks away from such a cushy job as Representative? What’s really going on here?
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Walking to cushy pensions plus additional income from other sources such as “consulting” and lobbying.
Regarding these incumbents looking for a new job, are we talking about Republicans or RINOs?
I think Woodall is retiring because his district is going to go Democrat very soon. I live in it and there has been a demographic shift that is incredible in rapidity and scope. This district will not be Republican again for a long time. He barely won this last time.
He’s there to do one job, get Britain out of the EU. Everything else is irrelevant.
I live in GA, I’m not too busy, I’ll do it. I don’t exactly live in his district, but that no longer seems to matter.
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