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‘Retire or lose’: Here’s why so many Democrats are stepping down in the 2022 midterms
lifesitenews.com ^ | 11/19/21 | Michael J. DaPos

Posted on 11/22/2021 12:45:08 PM PST by cotton1706

With retirements abundant and destined to keep pouring in, it would seem that (some) Democrats have gained enough self-awareness to recognize that they’re losing.

Jackie Speier has been a fixture of the California political scene for more than 40 years.

So much so that in the three decades preceding her first election to Congress in a special race to replace the late Tom Lantos in 2008, there was seldom a cycle that didn’t feature Speier’s name on the ballot in the San Francisco/San Mateo County area.

Before making a name for herself, though, Speier was an aide to Congressman Leo Ryan, a fellow Democrat often identified as her mentor, who infamously led a delegation to “Jonestown” in Guyana to investigate the Peoples Temple, the notorious religious cult led by Jim Jones, in 1978. Ryan, along with five others, was tragically shot and killed upon attempting to flee the commune.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Politics/Elections; US: California
KEYWORDS: 2022election; 2024election; california; election2022; election2024; elections; jackiespeier; leoryan; tomlantos; wellbye

1 posted on 11/22/2021 12:45:08 PM PST by cotton1706
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To: cotton1706

Nothing more dangerous than a lame duck Dem.


2 posted on 11/22/2021 12:46:52 PM PST by brownsfan (It's going to take real, serious, hard times to wake the American public.)
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To: cotton1706

Whatever - take a rino libtard with you 🤪


3 posted on 11/22/2021 12:47:15 PM PST by NWFree (Somebody has to say it)
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To: cotton1706

Speier also rhapsodized about her “really nice” abortion on the floor of the Congress......yuck.


4 posted on 11/22/2021 12:49:07 PM PST by Liz (Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.)
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To: Liz

She’s had 2 abortions and then had the audacity to proclaim she was a practicing Catholic. I abhor her, so good riddance.


5 posted on 11/22/2021 1:06:51 PM PST by Prince of Space ( Let’s go, Brandon! )
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To: Prince of Space

Good riddance is right.


6 posted on 11/22/2021 1:12:48 PM PST by Liz (Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.)
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To: cotton1706

Democrat/Socialists/Commies (dem/soc/commie) are insane because they destroy everything good about America that made it the envy of the world.


7 posted on 11/22/2021 1:17:52 PM PST by A Navy Vet (USA Birth Certificate - 1787. Death Certificate - 2021. )
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To: cotton1706

Spiere probably gets two ......or more.....govt pensions.

She retires to a life of luxury.....sucking off the. backs of struggling taxpayers.


8 posted on 11/22/2021 1:22:20 PM PST by Liz (Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.)
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To: cotton1706

Speier will be replaced by an AOC wannabe.


9 posted on 11/22/2021 1:39:03 PM PST by nbenyo
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To: cotton1706

Time to go for the jugular.


10 posted on 11/22/2021 2:32:53 PM PST by joma89 (Buy weapons and ammo, folks, and have the will to use them.)
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To: cotton1706

Makes no difference if we cannot replace them with MAGA conservatives or even RINOs. There are open seats in Texas, Illinois, Ohio, Pennsyltucky, and Kentucky, for the taking. Doyle’s PA-18 was once Santorum’s, for sake!


11 posted on 11/22/2021 2:49:26 PM PST by StAnDeliver (Each of you have at least ONE of these in your 401k: Pfizer, Moderna, AstraZeneca, J&J, and MERCK)
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To: brownsfan

This happened in 2017-2019 when a ton of republicans retired. Retire before being in the minority.


12 posted on 11/22/2021 3:07:19 PM PST by napscoordinator (Trump/Hunter, jr for President/Vice President 2016 democratic )
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To: Liz

She will be praised for her years of feeding at the trough, er, I mean public service.


13 posted on 11/22/2021 4:50:11 PM PST by Pining_4_TX (The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule. H.L. Mencken)
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To: NWFree

Yeah, like Linda Graham.


14 posted on 11/24/2021 1:15:16 AM PST by jmacusa (America.Founded by geniuses. Now governed by idiots. )
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