Posted on 01/15/2014 9:07:22 AM PST by cotton1706
Northern Virginia Rep. Jim Moran (D) will not seek another term in Congress.
“After 35 years as a public servant, as Mayor of Alexandria, and for the past 23 as a member of the House of Representatives, it’s time to close this chapter of my life and move on to the next challenge. It’s been an honor to represent Northern Virginia," Moran said in a statement Wednesday morning. "I couldn’t be more fortunate to have spent my career working with such wonderful people trying to make this one of the best places in the world to live, work and raise a family.
The 12-term congressman represents the heavily Democratic Washington, D.C., suburbs of Arlington and Alexandria, and his seat is sure to remain in Democratic hands.
A crucial appropriator, Moran was the ranking member on the House Appropriations Interior Subcommittee and sat on the Defense Appropriations Subcommittee in the district that holds the Pentagon and other critical military outposts.
The Virginia congressman is the third Democrat to head for the exits this week, following Rep. George Miller's (Calif.) announcement on Monday and Rep. Bill Owens's (N.Y.) decision Tuesday. Moran is the 15th House member to announce that he or she won't run again in 2014, a list which now includes six Democrats and nine Republicans.
they are effective as a minority party because Republicans cave so easy.
I heard Cuch give a speech at the Bristol Nascar race.
Thought he did a great job.
Cuch is a good, decent man and would have been great for VA. Now we’re going to have to suffer through four years of sleaze with McAwful. Thankfully, there’s a one-term limit in VA.
And a drink or two.
And, thankfully, the General Assembly remains largely conservative/Republican.
With the untimely death of Kim Jung Un's uncle, the North Korean Commie leadership has a job opening that they need to fill.
Coincidence?
I think not.
Now the loser can assault little kids and assault his wife in private. “Public servant”????? No...public pos.
Spelling correction:
Kim Jong-un
Yes, 2 to 1 majority in the GA, but a whole lot of them are really squishy.
It’s a safe rat district, unfortunately. Moran will be replaced with another piece of shite communist.
But I’m still glad to see the bastard and his full head of white hair retire.
Think he’ll choke another black kid or two before he retires ? Y’know, just for old times’ sake ?
Ha.
If JERRY Moran had done what Jim did he’d probably have been sent to prison.
Jim gets it whitewashed off his wikipedia page.
BTW how conservative was Stanford Parris?
He served 12 years in total. He was in the class of 1972, but lost his seat as a freshman due to Watergate. He then came back in 1980 and defeated the same man (Herb Harris).
His ACU ratings were:
1973-92; 1974-67
1981-93; 1982-67; 1983-80; 1984-79; 1985-67; 1986-83; 1987-82; 1988-96; 1989-75; 1990-83.
Average was 80.3. Overall, probably about on par with seatmate Frank Wolf’s lifetime average (though they would switch off from year to year with their votes, sometime Parris was more to the right, sometimes Wolf).
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