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POSTED BY: NIKI2
UPDATED: Tuesday, July 31, 2012 06:36
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Tuesday, July 31, 2012 6:36 AM

NIKI2

Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...


I find the title interesting; whether he had this in mind or not, it puts them in an interesting position. Culling all their "moderates" may not turn out to have been the best move for the Repubs...
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"GOP moderate from Ohio quitting his seat. Is he punishing his party?"

Potentially leaving his party in the lurch, Rep. Steven LaTourette (R) of Ohio is set to announce his retirement at the end of this term, the Columbus Dispatch and The Hill newspaper reported Monday evening.

Potentially leaving his party in the lurch, Rep. Steven LaTourette (R) of Ohio is set to announce his retirement at the end of this term, the Columbus Dispatch and The Hill newspaper reported Monday evening.

To say his announcement amounts to pulling an Olympia Snowe – the Republican Senator from Maine announced her retirement out of the blue back in March, turning a solid Republican electoral prospect into grave peril – by announcing one’s electoral intentions deep into an election year, would be an understatement.

LaTourette pulled what might be called a Super Snowe in leaving the party scrambling for a replacement just three months before the November elections in a district, Ohio’s 14th, that is at best narrowly Republican. President Obama knotted with Sen. John McCain (R) of Arizona there in 2008 at 49 to 49 percent, while President Bush defeated Sen. John Kerry (D) of Massachusetts in 2004 by a 53-to-47 margin.

The Monitor could not reach LaTourette’s office for comment, but the Dispatch reports that his resignation centered on a dispute with party leadership over committee assignments. While LaTourette will reportedly address the media at 10 a.m. Tuesday to formalize his announcement, the lawmaker has frequently been at odds with an increasingly conservative and compromise-averse caucus.

He also publicly clashed with the party on transportation, publicly decrying the five-year plan sponsored by Speaker Boehner. He also was one of two Republicans (Rep. Scott Rigell of Virginia is the other) to vote against criminal contempt charges for Attorney General Eric Holder when the House underwent a fierce, sharp-elbowed debate on the matter in late June.

LaTourette is the 11th Republican member of Congress to announce his retirement during this term. http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Elections/2012/0730/GOP-moderate-from-Ohi
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I LIKE it! Maybe SOMEHOW this ultra-right Congress can be moved more toward the center...nah, silly me...

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