Wise not running for re-election (WV Governor)

Governor plans to serve rest of term, heal pain in family

Gov. Bob Wise announced Tuesday that he will not seek re-election, and will instead focus on governing the state and “healing the pain I caused my family.”

Wise said his extramarital affair, which he admitted three months ago, was the “precipitating event” that led to his decision not to run again — not because it hurt his chances for re-election, but because it revealed the tattered relationships he had with his wife, Sandy, and two children.

“What you have to do is be real careful, and I wasn’t,” he said. “I’ve done an incredibly painful self-examination, and I can see where I started to make mistakes.

"In public life, what you have to be very careful about is that you preserve a balance, that there are some events that you’re going to have to say, no, I can’t make it, I have to be with my family. ... You get past a few months and realize you weren’t there for anything for your family.”

more: http://wvgazette.com/section/News/2003081219

maybe he's giving it all up for nothing - the joke could be on him.

if he will run for Senate when Byrd retires. What are the prospects of holding on to this one, West Virginia will be a major battleground state in 2004 and the Dems have to win it this time. A pickup here with NH and another state (Arizona, Nevada, Louisiana, Arkansas, Tennesee, Missouri, etc) would really screw up rove's Florida plan, it would no longer matter.

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