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U.S. Rep. Rob Andrews releases statement on resignation
South Jersey Times NJ.com ^ | February 4, 2014

Posted on 02/04/2014 1:26:26 PM PST by SMGFan

U.S. Rep. Rob Andrews released a statement this morning regarding his plan to resign from office this month.

(Excerpt) Read more at nj.com ...


TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: demresigns; demscongress; robandrews
So, take this job and shove it? No future in the House without Dem control. He lost his dream chance of future in the Senate with Menendez & Booker . He wanted to defeat / replace Lautenberg
1 posted on 02/04/2014 1:26:26 PM PST by SMGFan
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To: SMGFan

A career criminal, er, Democrat politician (a redundancy, I know), that is calling it quits?

Maybe he understands something coming in the near future that few of the rest of us have even glimpsed.


2 posted on 02/04/2014 1:30:03 PM PST by alloysteel (Obamacare - Death and Taxes now available online. One-stop shopping at its best!)
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To: SMGFan

I wish Pallone would go away too. He has been there too long as well.


3 posted on 02/04/2014 1:30:32 PM PST by SMGFan (Sarah Michelle Gellar is now on twitter @RealSMG)
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To: SMGFan

Where? Is it a chance for an R pickup?


4 posted on 02/04/2014 1:31:51 PM PST by hoosiermama (Obama: "Born in Kenya" Lying now or then or now)
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To: alloysteel
Maybe he understands something coming in the near future that few of the rest of us have even glimpsed.

I'll start worrying when bankers start committing suicide.

Oh... wait.

/johnny

5 posted on 02/04/2014 1:32:28 PM PST by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: SMGFan

Just go away Andrews, you commie slug.


6 posted on 02/04/2014 1:32:39 PM PST by smoothsailing
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To: SMGFan
Since I mostly only read hundreds of headlines daily, I had to look up which party he belongs to. Whenever the party affiliation is NOT indicate, 93% of the time they are of the RAT persuasion.
7 posted on 02/04/2014 1:35:36 PM PST by Cheerio (Barry Hussein Soetoro-0bama=The Complete Destruction of American Capitalism)
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To: Cheerio

It’s a safe bet.


8 posted on 02/04/2014 1:42:30 PM PST by Eric in the Ozarks ("Say Not the Struggle Naught Availeth.")
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To: hoosiermama

Camden County, not a R pickup.” New Jersey’s 1st District is a solidly Democratic seat. President Barack Obama carried the district with 66 percent in 2012.”
http://atr.rollcall.com/new-jerseys-rob-andrews-to-resign-from-congress-per-report/

State Sen Norcross to run. http://www.nj.com/gloucester-county/index.ssf/2014/02/sen_donald_norcross_announces_candidacy_for_us_rep_andrews_post.html#incart_m-rpt-1


9 posted on 02/04/2014 1:44:24 PM PST by SMGFan (Sarah Michelle Gellar is now on twitter @RealSMG)
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To: SMGFan

“Camden County, not a R pickup.” New Jersey’s 1st District is a solidly Democratic seat. President Barack Obama carried the district with 66 percent in 2012.””

From what is currently going on in Camden, I think one would have to rate it as the “outfall” of the sewer, that is New Jersey when it comes to politics.


10 posted on 02/04/2014 1:52:15 PM PST by vette6387
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To: alloysteel

Why resign? Couldn’t he just announce that he will not run for another term? Resignation means a special election that will cost the taxpayers money. Oh, wait, he’s a Democrat. They don’t give a d**n about the taxpayers.


11 posted on 02/04/2014 1:55:16 PM PST by reg45 (Barack 0bama: Implementing class warfare by having no class.)
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To: reg45

Clearly, the goal is to sucker the Republicans into funding a run for another unwinnable seat, further diluting their available cash so there shall be fewer funds for other much less marginal contests.

The Republicans are running a not particularly effective campaign for what was formerly a Republican seat in the Tampa, Florida, area, against Alex Sink, a rabidly liberal Democrat who has all kinds of big money from the progressives behind her. This seat, however, is potentially winnable, and retained in the Republican column.

If Democrat Sink does win it, that would provide just a little more push for the Democrats to not get drubbed too badly in November (when the seat will be open again). If Alex Sink wins, that gives her the wide advantage of being an incumbent.


12 posted on 02/04/2014 2:05:36 PM PST by alloysteel (Obamacare - Death and Taxes now available online. One-stop shopping at its best!)
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To: SMGFan

Takes 5 paragraphs for the writer to say he’s a Democrat.


13 posted on 02/04/2014 2:08:03 PM PST by <1/1,000,000th%
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To: hoosiermama

The GOP last won the seat in 1972.


14 posted on 02/04/2014 8:34:06 PM PST by fieldmarshaldj (Resist We Much)
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To: reg45
Why resign? Couldn’t he just announce that he will not run for another term?

In NJ, there appears to be an unwritten law that if a Democrat under investigation for crimes resigns, the investigation immediately ceases and the Democrat rides off with buckets of mob/government/enviro/union/construction money.

See McGreevey, Torricelli, etc.

15 posted on 02/04/2014 8:38:20 PM PST by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: alloysteel; <1/1,000,000th%; reg45; NFHale; campaignPete R-CT; BillyBoy; fieldmarshaldj; ...

He’s leaving so he can start getting paid in the private sector NOW rather than waiting for months.

No Republican is gonna run seriously for that seat. Certainly the NRCC isn’t gonna spend a dime so nothing to worry about there Steel. Romney got a third of vote there. State Republicans didn’t even bother to try and win the US Senate seat special. They let a conservative they hate coast to the nomination (they put up some unknown with little resources against him in the primary) and then ignored him (and Christine didn’t schedule the election to coincide with his expected landslide to help the guy out either, he needlessly had a separate election first).

Last I heard the Republican was leading Alex Sink in Florida.


16 posted on 02/04/2014 9:55:47 PM PST by Impy (RED=COMMUNIST, NOT REPUBLICAN)
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