Posted on 08/07/2014 1:16:00 PM PDT by jalisco555
HELENA — Sen. John Walsh said Thursday he is pulling out of the Senate race because his campaign was distracted by the controversy over allegations that he plagiarized a U.S. Army War College research paper.
Walsh, a Democrat, said he decided to drop out of the race. He had canceled campaign events this week as he and his family discussed what he would do.
The New York Times reported July 23 that Walsh had plagiarized large portions of the research paper in 2007.
Walsh will serve out the rest of his Senate term, which ends in early January 2015.
“I am ending my campaign so that I can focus on fulfilling the responsibility entrusted to me as your U.S. senator,” Walsh said in a statement to supporters. “You deserve someone who will always fight for Montana, and I will.”
The Montana Democratic Party now will choose a replacement for Walsh to appear on the Nov. 4 ballot, along with Republican Rep. Steve Daines and Libertarian Roger Roots.
(Excerpt) Read more at billingsgazette.com ...
“I am ending my campaign so that I can focus on fulfilling the responsibility entrusted to me as your U.S. senator,” Walsh said in a statement to supporters. “You deserve someone who will always fight for Montana, and I will.”
“”If they can find a candidate.”””
I bet it’s a woman.
I’m sure they will find a Federal Judge who thinks so.
The New York Times reported July 23 that Walsh had plagiarized large portions of the research paper in 2007.
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In a self-prepared statement, the Senator said; “Therefore, I shall resign the Presidency effective at noon tomorrow. Er, I mean SENATE.”
Walsh out in MT.
'I will now give a farewell speech that I wrote for the occasion. Four score and seven years ago...'
They better find somebody to the right of Daines, then. He’s up over 10 pts and it’s his to lose and that’s with a Libertarian candidate in the race.
LOL! Hi-larious
I am sure the Dems will come up with somebody. The Libertarian vote always costs the Rep, so the Dems have a shot.
I think the Democrat women in MT were unhappy that Walsh was appointed to the Senate. This might open up a battle between the old-time Butte Democrats and the lesbian liberals in MT.
They can’t run Schweitzer after he called Dianne Feinstein a whore.
Anything to cling to power as long as possible and deny a replacement a jump on seniority . .
That's what the paper says, but Walsh may not have thought out whether he's going to hang on to the very last day yet.
Same old story.
....and so many freepers just LUV those feisty, free-spirited, pot-puffin' Libertarians and their boyish, cutey-pie frontman, John Stossell.....completely forgetting, for example how Ross Perot (not a Libertarian, just a billionaire spoiler) drained off votes, money and energy from GHWB....and we got the pervert liar, Bubba Clinton for 8 years.
The more things change, the more they remain the same.
Leni
WE WANT BAUCUS!
WE WANT BAUCUS!
WE WANT BAUCUS!
No new Democratic primary?
Write on!
+1 Somebody pulled the trigger too early ... intentional?
So instead of admitting his wrongdoing and apologizing, he dismisses it as a distraction. He’s seems qualified for the Senate to me. He’ll fit right in with the other crooks.
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