Posted on 12/20/2021 12:45:02 PM PST by cyn
21st House Democrat planning to step down at end of termRep. Stephanie Murphy (D-Fla.) will not run for another term. Murphy, who co-chairs the Blue Dog Coalition, said Monday she will not seek to continue representing Florida’s 7th Congressional District because she wants to spend more time with her family.
“These last few years have been some of the most rewarding moments of my life, but also some of the most challenging. Public service is not without personal sacrifice, and as a mom of two young children, my time away from them has been hard for them, for me, and for our family,” Murphy said in a video announcement.
Murphy, 43, has been in office since 2017. A political newcomer when she announced her bid, Murphy knocked off Republican John Mica, who had been in Congress for 12 terms. Murphy won reelection in 2020 with 55 percent of the vote.
More and more Democrats have recently decided against running in 2022..
Murphy is the 21st Democrat who plans on stepping down at the end of their term, including 13 Democrats who don’t want to seek another office. That’s compared to 12 Republicans.
..The district Murphy represents is, like the other districts in the state, being redrawn by state legislators and the revised version could look much different.
Regardless of the change, Murphy leaving means “Democrats are going to have a much more difficult time keeping it,” Aubrey Jewett, a political science professor at the University of Central Florida, told The Epoch Times.
Democrats’ majority in the House is 221-213, with one vacancy..
Six Republicans have already launched campaigns, including small business owner Erika Benfield, Navy SEAL Brady Duke, and state Rep. Anthony Sabatini.
(Excerpt) Read more at theepochtimes.com ...
Best quit I guess before you get run out of town.
Cockroaches scattering
I thought she was the anointed Rat candidate to challenge DeSantis.
Another ‘unknown’ Dem is resigning.
What about well known Race Baiters such as Maxine Waters?
When will she be flushed out of the government system?
Ahhhh, the old “I want to spend more time with my family” gambit.
https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/24/politics/stephanie-murphy-passes-florida-senate-run/index.html
Florida Rep. Stephanie Murphy, a rising Democratic star who was seriously considering challenging Republican Sen. Marco Rubio next year for his seat, announced Monday that she will forgo a Senate run and instead will seek reelection to her seat in the House.
Murphy’s decision comes shortly
>>>after fellow Florida Democrat Rep. Val Demings announced she was considering a run for the seat. <<<
Murphy passing on a Senate run avoids setting up a potentially brutal primary ahead of what will be an expensive and difficult general election match up against Rubio.
Val Demings is the annointed rising star.
She sees it, the coming Tsunami to wash the traitors away!
Whoooshhh!
ABOVE STORY is from May 24, 2021 -
That seat will flip, as will about 40 more.
Is that her “crime” family?
Leaving after only 3 terms????
She knows she’s cooked...
Also a member of the Jan 6 Circus...
too young to get a full pension after 6 years... only 43 years old... she’s getting out of dodge.... read the tea leaves.
Or, before they get charged, tried, convicted and sentenced for their crimes.
Time to move into lobbying and make some REAL gravy.
Blue dogs have been gone for 20 years.
The last of the Blue Dogs was Charles Stenholm.
Need to double that 40 number...
Unless something DRASTICALLY shifts between now and November, GOP will handily see 70-80 seat gains... and if things keep going the way they’ve gone this year, don’t be surprised if they wind up with triple digit gains.
Stephanie Murphy is an American politician serving as the U.S. Representative for Florida’s 7th congressional district since 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, she defeated incumbent Republican John Mica in 2016.
>>The district includes much of downtown and northern Orlando, as well as all of Winter Park, Maitland, Sanford and Altamonte Springs.<<
Born:Đặng Thị Ngọc Dung, September 16, 1978, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Clinton era made sure to drive all the real blue dogs out..
Other than a few lingering incumbents, hasn’t been a true blue dog democrat elected fresh to congress since the late 80s.
I see something like her going down every day, and for a second, assume that is exactly what it will look like when she does go down.
How could I tell the difference?
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