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riversedge

(70,270 posts)
Thu Apr 18, 2024, 02:38 PM Apr 18

Kansas GOP rep says he won't run for reelection

Source: The hill





by Nick Robertson - 04/18/24 2:02 PM ET


Rep. Jake LaTurner (R-Kan.) announced Thursday he will not run for reelection in November, adding himself to a growing list of members leaving Congress at the end of the term.

LaTurner, 36, said he is leaving the House to better focus on his family and young children. He said he will remain in office until the end of his term in January.


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Multiple members have also chosen to resign from office early, thinning an already slim GOP majority in the House. With the resignation of Rep. Ken Buck (R-Colo.) earlier this month and the expected resignation of Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-Wis.) Friday, the GOP has a one-vote margin in the House.

Gallagher, however, may choose to stay in the House for longer than previously announced to support a foreign aid package introduced this week, per a source familiar with the congressman.

LaTurner said the “current dysfunction” has been “distressing,” but it is not the reason he is leaving Congress. ..........................................





Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/house/4602635-kansas-gop-rep-says-he-wont-run-for-reelection/







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Kansas GOP rep says he won't run for reelection (Original Post) riversedge Apr 18 OP
He's my congressman BOSSHOG Apr 18 #1
Congrats Demovictory9 Apr 18 #2
That's His Excuse? GB_RN Apr 18 #3
That's their boilerplate excuse. 4lbs Apr 18 #4
May Rep. Jake LaTurner (R-Kan.) vote WITH the Democrats .... Traurigkeit Apr 18 #5
He has been a Republican bozo. BOSSHOG Apr 18 #8
Kinda' late in announcing, no? NM Grins Apr 18 #6
He just found out he had to pay Chump 5% of his gross fundraising dollars FakeNoose Apr 18 #7

BOSSHOG

(37,084 posts)
1. He's my congressman
Thu Apr 18, 2024, 02:44 PM
Apr 18

This is great news. He’s a run of the mill punk maga knuckle head. The “current dysfunction has been distressing.” Yes you have Jake. He most likely will be replaced by someone else from the maga gene pool.

Thx My Friend. Yucky day today. You brightened it up for me.

GB_RN

(2,371 posts)
3. That's His Excuse?
Thu Apr 18, 2024, 03:00 PM
Apr 18

Not the dysfunction in Congress, but to “better focus on his family and young children”?
I call bullshit. When someone resigns from a position with that excuse, there’s a reason behind it. And that reason is almost always…outside the marriage, if you take my meaning.

My oncologist resigned abruptly, sending a letter to all his patients (or rather, the hospital’s cancer center did), with that same excuse. Several years ago, one of the heart surgeons at the hospital where I currently work, “retired” with that same excuse, but the affair made it into the local news. Big oops.

4lbs

(6,858 posts)
4. That's their boilerplate excuse.
Thu Apr 18, 2024, 03:33 PM
Apr 18

It could also really mean they will try to get out of Dodge while they still can, because they know they will be crap come November, and don't want to do any real work.

Take hundreds of thousands in their "campaign war chest" with them, for doing nothing. N-O-T-H-I-N-G.

Traurigkeit

(224 posts)
5. May Rep. Jake LaTurner (R-Kan.) vote WITH the Democrats ....
Thu Apr 18, 2024, 03:39 PM
Apr 18

but he has no SPINE. Couldn't say "I can't get anything done with these Republicans Bozos that claim they are MAGA! They are ALL stupid, low IQ, self-centered assholes."

BOSSHOG

(37,084 posts)
8. He has been a Republican bozo.
Thu Apr 18, 2024, 10:35 PM
Apr 18

Somewhat low key, but one of Americas worst homegrown in the heartland.

FakeNoose

(32,703 posts)
7. He just found out he had to pay Chump 5% of his gross fundraising dollars
Thu Apr 18, 2024, 06:11 PM
Apr 18

That's going to turn a lot of people off.

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