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Jim Moran to announce retirement
Politico ^ | 1/15/2014 | JAKE SHERMAN

Posted on 01/15/2014 5:37:01 AM PST by markomalley

Virginia Democratic Rep. Jim Moran will retire after 23 years in the House, according to multiple Democratic sources.

The retirement is the third for Democrats this week: on Monday, Rep. George Miller (Calif.) said he would leave Congress after 40 years and Rep. Bill Owens (N.Y.) announced Tuesday he would forgo re-election in 2014.

Moran’s northern Virginia seat is heavily Democratic, and is unlikely to be competitive in November: President Barack Obama won 68 percent of the vote in both 2012 and 2008, and Moran coasted with 65 percent of the vote in 2012. The Democratic primary is expected to be competitive, though, since Moran has had a hold on the district since 1991.

Moran, a longtime former Alexandria, Va., city official, is expected to make the announcement Wednesday morning, according to party sources.


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To: markomalley

Good Riddance!


41 posted on 01/15/2014 6:29:20 AM PST by MissMagnolia (You see, truth always resides wherever brave men still have ammunition. I pick truth. (John Ransom))
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To: markomalley

Except, of course, his entire family is political. . . there will be another Moran running for the seat, almost certainly. ..


42 posted on 01/15/2014 6:36:23 AM PST by Salgak (http://catalogoftehburningstoopid.blogspot.com 100% all-natural snark !)
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To: markomalley

If Moran was alive and living in NYC in 1863 he would have been lynching adult Blacks and setting fire to Black Orphanages.


43 posted on 01/15/2014 6:36:31 AM PST by BilLies ("Will none rid me of this lying bastard ?")
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To: markomalley

There are more Democrat resignations coming. Most Democrats know the devastating politico wreck that they will undergo come November, 2014. The smart ones know it’s time to get out before being embarassed by massive losses in the Mid-Term elections. The only things that can alter their fate are, the Republican dummies screw this up or, brooming Obama/Biden out of office right now, by resignation or impeachment!!! End of story!!!


44 posted on 01/15/2014 6:43:27 AM PST by JLAGRAYFOX ( My only objective is to defeat and destroy Obama & his Democrat Party, politically!!!.)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Conyers can’t retire until his wife gets out of jail and gets back on somebody’s payroll. Dingell will die in office and his old lady will run for his seat and probably win.


45 posted on 01/15/2014 6:46:14 AM PST by Old Retired Army Guy
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To: Jimmy Valentine

Serious alcoholic too if the stories about him barely being able to stumble his way home from Murphys are true.

But Alexandria loves him. I once got kicked out of the Irish store in the “Irish Walk” by Pat Troys for speaking ill of him. Saw him walk by on King St and made a comment to my wife (not too loud, but definitely enough to be heard by others) about how amazed I was that he’d managed to pry himself off his barstool at Murphys in a condition where he could actually walk, then wondered whether he was on his way to beat up a kid or his ex-wife.


46 posted on 01/15/2014 6:48:12 AM PST by tanknetter
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To: markomalley

Another politicians quitting to go home to spend more time with his money.


47 posted on 01/15/2014 6:52:47 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (Where are Holder's "po folks" getting the I.D.s to sign up for ObamaCare?)
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To: markomalley

Hooray! This antisemitic child beater has been an embarassment to Virginia and Congress. The libs in Alexandria / Arlington / Fairfax County kept re-electing him no matter what shenanigans he committed.


48 posted on 01/15/2014 6:54:09 AM PST by Rummyfan (Iraq: it's not about Iraq anymore, it's about the USA!)
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To: DIRTYSECRET
Is he an idiot or somewhat reasonable?

Oh, he's an idiot all right.

49 posted on 01/15/2014 6:54:57 AM PST by Rummyfan (Iraq: it's not about Iraq anymore, it's about the USA!)
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To: Rummyfan

Give him a break on his antisemitism. He comes from that thankfully now rare, old school segment of Catholicism that still blames the Jews for killing the Baby Jesus.

I mean, it’s clear that his entire life has been lived with a massive inferiority complex to the Kennedys. Poor guy ...

(is a /sarc tag really needed for the above??? ;-). )


50 posted on 01/15/2014 6:59:41 AM PST by tanknetter
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To: allendale

Finding liberals to win in VA is now easy nnd frequent.


51 posted on 01/15/2014 7:14:28 AM PST by Theodore R. (TX Republicans can't wait until March 4 to nominate Cornball and George P.!)
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To: DIRTYSECRET

He’s a moron.


52 posted on 01/15/2014 7:25:41 AM PST by WayneS (Respect the 2nd Amendment; Repeal the 16th (and 17th))
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Unfortunately, Dingell-berry will probably hang on until he is shaken loose or wiped away.


53 posted on 01/15/2014 7:27:27 AM PST by WayneS (Respect the 2nd Amendment; Repeal the 16th (and 17th))
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To: Theodore R.

Especially in the north.


54 posted on 01/15/2014 7:30:57 AM PST by WayneS (Respect the 2nd Amendment; Repeal the 16th (and 17th))
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To: markomalley

55 posted on 01/15/2014 7:44:38 AM PST by Red Badger (Proud member of the Zeta Omicron Tau Fraternity since 2004...................)
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To: DIRTYSECRET

A moron to the max................


56 posted on 01/15/2014 7:45:20 AM PST by Red Badger (Proud member of the Zeta Omicron Tau Fraternity since 2004...................)
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To: markomalley

57 posted on 01/15/2014 7:45:53 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: JLAGRAYFOX

I’m convinced that, besides having many politically ignorant voters voting and besides having many politically stupid voters voting, a lot of voter fraud went on during the November ‘12 general election, too, and that it could happen again, from now on. Add to this making amnesty for illegal immigrants official, very soon, as well as having all of the ongoing problems created by leftist activist judges continue, and all of these pro-left actions, combined, will succeed in creating a long-term headache for all of U.S. conservatism.


58 posted on 01/15/2014 7:46:59 AM PST by johnthebaptistmoore (The world continues to be stuck in a "all leftist, all of the time" funk. BUNK THE FUNK!)
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To: markomalley
Wait... what?

Wasserman Schultz: Democrats Will Win in 2014 Running on Obamacare

59 posted on 01/15/2014 7:47:49 AM PST by Lazamataz (Early 2009 to 7/21/2013 - RIP my little girl Cathy. You were the best cat ever. You will be missed.)
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To: markomalley

Bunch of rats jumping ship. They must have read what we wrote on the wall.


60 posted on 01/15/2014 8:00:55 AM PST by PistolPaknMama
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