Democrats running FROM reelection in increasing numbers
2010 March 7

by Karen Northon

The list is growing at an increasing pace. Democrats in Washington, and in state legislatures and gubernatorial offices, are steadily coming forward to tell their constituents and the nation at-large that they no longer desire a role in elected office – for a variety of vague reasons.

Most notably missing from this list (for now) is the ever-defiant New York Democrat Rep. Charles Rangel, who – in the vein of Eliot Spitzer and Rod Blagoyevich – seems to believe himself untouchable despite congressional probes into his “ethical lapses.”

This is a list-in-progress.

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March 5 – Representative William D. Delahunt, a seven-term Democrat, announced Friday he will not seek re-election.

March 5 – Freshman Democratic Representative Eric Massa (NY) announced his resignation.

March 5 – Massachusetts State Sen. Susan Tucker tells her constituents she will not run for another term.

March 4 – Wyoming Gov. Dave Freudenthal announces at a press conference that he won’t run for a third term.

March 4 – Two-term Utah State Representative Christine Johnson announces she will not seek reelection.

March 2 – Four-term Massachusetts State Representative Brian P. Wallace informs his native South Boston that he will leave office at the end of the year.

March 1 – New York Governor David Paterson, knee-deep in sordid scandals, drops his bid for reelection.

February 15 – Sen. Evan Bayh of Indiana announces he will not run for reelection

February 12 – Rhode Island Rep. Patrick Kennedy announces he will not seek reelection

February 11 – California Representative Diane Watson announces she will not run for reelection.

February – Delaware Sen. Ted Kaufman, appointed by then-Gov. Ruth Ann Minner to fill the vacancy left when Joe Biden departed for the vice presidency, says he will not seek election for a full term.

January 6 – Democrats announce Sen. Chris Dodd of Connecticut will not seek reelection.

January 5 – North Dakota Sen. Byron Dorgan announces he will not run for reelection

July 10, 2009 – After a controversial appointment to fill the vacancy left when Barack Obama assumed the presidency, Illinois Sen. Roland Burris decided to opt out of a run for election to a full term.

For an in-depth look at the 2010 elections landscape, check out RealClear Politics’ running coverage at Politics Nation.

and Red Dead Ted and Murtha the Moron have both gone "underground".

Prayer works.

They have milked us dry and nothing to show for it.

The left is not happy

They are very fortunate to be able to walk away.

Damn Umfug, that is so well said. K to you. I'd give you the O with that, but alas I can't.

--- FFx3

Umfug wrote:

They are very fortunate to be able to walk away.

They can walk but they can't hide. They are just trying to salvage their political careers. Don't let this fool you, these are the same corrupt rerpresentatives who led us into this huge deficit to begin with. Vote them all out.

If they can't control the game, they simply don't want to play it.

Bullshit isn't enough to sustain anything.

Fill a bucket with "Hope" and you still have an empty bucket.

TheMadPoet wrote:

Bullshit isn't enough to sustain anything.

Fill a bucket with "Hope" and you still have an empty bucket.

MadPoet the failed Mod opines.

OldLyme wrote:

TheMadPoet wrote:

Bullshit isn't enough to sustain anything.

Fill a bucket with "Hope" and you still have an empty bucket.

MadPoet the failed Mod opines.

Lyme the failed poster whines