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Lawmaker: Trey Gowdy to leave the House after 2016
Washington Examiner ^
| 11/17/2015
| Washington Examiner
Posted on 11/17/2015 10:08:47 AM PST by gwgn02
Rep. John Fleming, R-La., said Wednesday morning that Tea Party favorite Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., won't run for a fourth term, and instead plans to retire at the end of the current Congress to return to his home state.
"Trey wants to go back to South Carolina, and God bless him for that," Fleming said on C-SPAN. When asked if that's what Gowdy has told other Republicans, Fleming confirmed it.
"At the end of his term, yes," he said. "He plans to go back home, and he wants to finish his work on the Benghazi special committee. But he loves South Carolina and he loves his family, and he wants to go back and spend the rest of his life there."
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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: benghazi; gop; gowdy; house
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posted on
11/17/2015 10:08:47 AM PST
by
gwgn02
To: gwgn02
Is he still a “Tea Party Favorite”?
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posted on
11/17/2015 10:11:05 AM PST
by
oblomov
To: gwgn02
Get out now!
You are not producing results so quit now and leave for good!
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posted on
11/17/2015 10:12:12 AM PST
by
Dacula
(Southern lives matter!)
To: gwgn02
Who wants to spend their life in such a hostile environment as is WDC??? The left has made life there miserable and I’m afraid we will lose all of our good people.
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posted on
11/17/2015 10:13:13 AM PST
by
elpadre
(AfganistaMr Obama said the goal was to "disrupt, dismantle and defeat al-hereQaeda" and its allies.)
To: oblomov
He is certainly one of the good guys who is on our side.
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posted on
11/17/2015 10:13:15 AM PST
by
Blue Jays
(Rock Hard, Ride Free)
To: gwgn02
I just wish that a lot more congresscritters would go home after three terms.
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posted on
11/17/2015 10:13:20 AM PST
by
kennedy
(No relation to those other Kennedys.)
To: Blue Jays
I think he is more on the side of the John Boehners than mine.
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posted on
11/17/2015 10:13:55 AM PST
by
gwgn02
To: Dacula
The only way there will ever be results is if a president is elected who will then direct his AG pick to pursue prosecution.
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posted on
11/17/2015 10:15:24 AM PST
by
cripplecreek
(Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.)
To: Blue Jays
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posted on
11/17/2015 10:16:29 AM PST
by
cripplecreek
(Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.)
To: gwgn02
Hmm. I’d guess this is somehow tired to his favorable treatment of Paul Ryan & Boehner. Hints that there’s something there.
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posted on
11/17/2015 10:17:34 AM PST
by
FourPeas
("Conservatism's worked every time it's been tried." -Rush)
To: oblomov
He is still as much of a Tea Party favorite as Nikki Haley is now....
To: kennedy
I just wish that a lot more congresscritters would go home after three terms.3/4 of the Texas delegation could, and should, depart. That delegation has been a major disappointment over the past several years. All hat, no cattle.
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posted on
11/17/2015 10:18:45 AM PST
by
Night Hides Not
(Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad! Remember Mississippi! My vote is going to Cruz.)
To: gwgn02
What's not to love about your home state, South Carolina?
Rep. Gowdy was not allowed to pursue his duties in Congress.
He is a top notch prosecutor but the reins, held by the establishment, were tight and his co-committee members (from the Dems) were a roadblock to his success. We may never know the truth about Benghazi.
Bat,
Northern by birth, Southern by choice!
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posted on
11/17/2015 10:20:00 AM PST
by
BatGuano
(You don't think I'd go into combat with loose change in my pocket, do ya?)
To: gwgn02; cripplecreek
Trey Gowdy had the deck stacked against him from the very start.
He has continually dealt with a President who hampers his every move. Dealing with a POTUS who hates our country is unprecedented.
Trey Gowdy was also saddled with weak-willed colleagues who don't wish to make waves...they just wish to cling to cushy jobs, the country be damned.
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posted on
11/17/2015 10:22:06 AM PST
by
Blue Jays
(Rock Hard, Ride Free)
To: gwgn02
No comment, except to ask y’all to read my tag line.
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posted on
11/17/2015 10:23:05 AM PST
by
Tupelo
(Honest men go to Washington, but honest men do not stay in Washington.)
To: oblomov
More like another Tea Party Fart in a Windstorm
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posted on
11/17/2015 10:23:53 AM PST
by
bigbob
To: Tupelo
Your right...I have always like Gowdy, don’t know him and I don’t live in his State, but I hope he does now what makes him happy and I can see staying in ‘sewer city’ doesn’t...
Good Luck Gowdy...enjoy your life....
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posted on
11/17/2015 10:25:27 AM PST
by
HarleyLady27
(I have such happy days, I hope you do too!!!)
To: gwgn02
We went through this same scenario a couple of months ago and it was quickly dispelled by Mr Gowdy’s camp. Is this a rerun of the same story by “his close friend(s)”
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posted on
11/17/2015 10:38:59 AM PST
by
Cyman
To: gwgn02
I guess the check from the Clintons cleared...
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posted on
11/17/2015 10:40:06 AM PST
by
Cowboy Bob
(With Trump & Cruz, America can't lose!)
To: Cyman
The way I remember it this sounds almost word for word like the same story.
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