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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BOSSHOG
(37,090 posts)This is great news. Hes 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.
Demovictory9
(32,468 posts)GB_RN
(2,371 posts)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, theres 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 hospitals 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)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
(230 posts)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
(37,090 posts)Somewhat low key, but one of Americas worst homegrown in the heartland.
Grins
(7,226 posts)FakeNoose
(32,706 posts)That's going to turn a lot of people off.