Former Democratic congressional staffer Wendell Fant announced Friday that he will not mount a third-party campaign against North Carolina Rep. Larry Kissell, rebuffing calls from activists to challenge the Democratic incumbent for his vote against health care reform.
Fant has been urged to make the race by North Carolina Families First, a labor-backed group that gathered more than 30,000 petitions to put Fant's name on the ballot.
Fant, a former deputy district director for Kissell, said he decided to forgo a bid in order to "focus on providing for my family," explaining: "I have to put my family ahead of my own political ambitions."
Fant also said Kissell had soothed the frustration of some liberals when he voted for the Democratic-backed American Jobs Act in May.
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