...and another one gone, and another one gone...

this could definitely be competitive.

targeted for takeover in 2018 by ultraconservatives like the Kochs for the sin of caring about what his constituents wanted.

I'm sorry to see him go, for fear of what's going to replace him.

though, and hopefully help move a good replacement into position. I'm not from up there. I did read that earlier in the summer he had something like $1 million for the campaign, but guessing that's mostly pledges. A declared Republican challenger, Ron Simmons, is Koch approved, which is all I'd need to know even if Simmons didn't reveal himself to be in the typical amoral Koch mold.