Posted on 11/16/2021 10:58:35 AM PST by SeekAndFind
On Tuesday, Rep. Jackie Speier (D-CA) announced that she will not run for reelection in the 2022 midterm elections. She is the ninth Democratic incumbent in the House to announce their retirement from Congress.
In a video posted to Twitter, Speier made the announcement and thanked her constituents for their support over the years.
“Today, I’m announcing that I will not be a candidate for reelection to Congress in 2022,” she stated in the video. “It’s time for me to come home. Time for me to be more than a weekend wife, mother, and friend. It’s been an extraordinary privilege and honor to represent the people of San Mateo County and San Francisco at almost every level of government for nearly four decades.”
In the announcement, Speier explained that she decided to go into a life of public service after surviving the Jonestown Massacre, where she had accompanied Rep. Leo Ryan (D-CA) to the remote compound in Guyana. As she was trying to help 15 defectors leave the community, she was shot five times.
“I vowed that if I survived, I would dedicate my life to public service. I lived, and I served,” she stated in the video. “It has been a remarkable journey that has surpassed my wildest dreams.”
Speier was first elected to Congress in 2008, representing California’s 12th congressional district. She has represented California’s 14th congressional district since 2013. Thus far, several other Democratic House members, such as Rep. Ann Kirkpatrick (D-AZ) and Rep. Mike Doyle (D-PA), have announced they will not seek reelection in 2022.
Watch the announcement below.
Maybe they should start listing who isn’t dropping out.
FJB!
Let’s go Brandon!
Maybe she’s just 71 years old and wanting to retire instead of dying in office like Pelosi, Biden, and etc. want to do.
Which is commie speak for “The Dem party is finished, so yeah Im retiring” she was such a prick good riddance!
I have to give her credit, she at least tried to do something about a problem her constituents had and got shot for the trouble. Not many will stay in public service after an assassination attempt.
Most people may not remember she was working for Congressman Leo Ryan who was killed in Guyana investigating the Jim Jones Cult...she barely escaped with her life....
“..she was shot five times...”
Damnable bad luck..she survived. Must have been a 22 short.
The dems are doing this now to let the GOP take the blame for the economic disaster Biden has created. All theater, all of it.
Take the campaign money and run.
Jackie’s fellow Democratic politicians were big supporters of Jim Jones for years.
Apparently she learned nothing from the massacre and near miss.
Another one bites the dust.
She must have realized the demon rat party is as much of a cult as was People’s Temple and she doesn’t need any more bullet holes.
How old is she?
Little known history about Jim Jones:
https://jonestown.sdsu.edu/?page_id=31441
There is some interesting evidence that Jim Jones was doing a CIA mind control experiment while pretending to be a religious figure.
They’re gonna get full pensions so why not get out while the gettin’s good.
Just found out that demented Feinstein is running for re-election! This info from Wikipedia:
In January 2021, Feinstein filed the initial Federal Election Commission paperwork needed to seek reelection in 2024, when she will be 91.[9]
DimRats abandoning sinking ship. LET’S GO BRANDON!!
91? That’s crazy!
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