Senator Dorgan of North Dakota to Retire
By DAVID M. HERSZENHORN
NYT
Senator Byron L. Dorgan, Democrat of North Dakota, announced abruptly on Tuesday that he would not seek re-election this year – a clear sign of the difficulties Democrats will face in defending their large Congressional majorities in the upcoming mid-term elections.
Mr. Dorgan, who is completing his third term, has been regarded for months as one of the most vulnerable Democratic incumbents. North Dakota Gov. John Hoeven, a popular Republican, has been weighing a run for Senate, and polls indicated he would easily defeat Mr. Dorgan.
“Although I still have a passion for public service and enjoy my work in the Senate, I have other interests and I have other things I would like to pursue outside of public life,” Mr. Dorgan said in a statement released Tuesday evening. “I have written two books and have an invitation from a publisher to write two more books. I would like to do some teaching and would also like to work on energy policy in the private sector.”
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NYT
Senator Byron L. Dorgan, Democrat of North Dakota, announced abruptly on Tuesday that he would not seek re-election this year – a clear sign of the difficulties Democrats will face in defending their large Congressional majorities in the upcoming mid-term elections.
Mr. Dorgan, who is completing his third term, has been regarded for months as one of the most vulnerable Democratic incumbents. North Dakota Gov. John Hoeven, a popular Republican, has been weighing a run for Senate, and polls indicated he would easily defeat Mr. Dorgan.
“Although I still have a passion for public service and enjoy my work in the Senate, I have other interests and I have other things I would like to pursue outside of public life,” Mr. Dorgan said in a statement released Tuesday evening. “I have written two books and have an invitation from a publisher to write two more books. I would like to do some teaching and would also like to work on energy policy in the private sector.”
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1 Comments:
I am sure Mr Dorgan can get a sweetheart deal from Countrywide similar to Kent Conrad got upon leaving office. John Edwards was right in that there are two Americas-one for the ruling elite who are immune from the very laws they pass for the rest of us, and there is an America for the rest of us who have to abide by the failed policies the ruling elite enact for us.
I said in a previous comment that there very well could be an armed rebellion in this country in the next 50 years. Make that the next 10.
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