Posted on 01/02/2015 5:40:24 AM PST by cotton1706
Capitol Hill isn’t a happy or easy place to be these days, and several senators could be eyeing the exits ahead of 2016.
While no official retirement statements have come out of the upper chamber yet, it’s safe to assume that many politicians are using the holidays to ponder their future.
Here are 10 senators who could potentially step down after the 114th Congress.
Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.)
Boxer’s fundraising efforts have lapsed, stoking speculation that the longtime liberal senator is ready to hang it up.
According to her latest Federal Election Commission filings, Boxer has less than $150,000 in her campaign account after a quarter in which her contributions fell short of $12,000.
That’s in stark contrast to her fundraising efforts from the same quarter ahead of her successful 2010 reelection, when she raised $2.6 million and sat on more than $3.6 million total.
Boxer, who is 74, told the Associated Press earlier this year that she’ll make an announcement in early 2015.
If she does retire, Democrats' deep bench of diverse potential candidates includes Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom, Attorney General Kamala Harris, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, and former Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa.
Sen. David Vitter (R-La.)
Vitter announced earlier this year that he intends to run for governor of Louisiana in 2015 to succeed term-limited Gov. Bobby Jindal (R-La.).
Since it’s a year before he’d be up for reelection in the Senate, if he wins, he could retire from the Senate and appoint an interim replacement to his seat in the upper chamber. If he loses the governor’s race, he could still run for reelection to the Senate in 2016.
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Lee (UT) - 2016 - 99% (Average) - 100% (CReview) - 96% (Heritage) - 100% (CFG) - 100% (ACU) - 100% (FreedomWorks)
Paul (KY) - 2016 - 96% (Average) - 95% (CReview) - 92% (Heritage) - 97% (CFG) - 96% (ACU) - 100% (FreedomWorks)
Scott (SC) - 2016 - 92% (Average) - 86% (CReview) - 85% (Heritage) - 94% (CFG) - 96% (ACU) - 100% (FreedomWorks)
Rubio (FL) - 2016 - 90% (Average) - 80% (CReview) - 81% (Heritage) - 91% (CFG) - 96% (ACU) - 100% (FreedomWorks)
Johnson (WI) - 2016 - 88% (Average) - 73% (CReview) - 84% (Heritage) - 87% (CFG) - 96% (ACU) - 100% (FreedomWorks)
Crapo (ID) - 2016 - 84% (Average) - 78% (CReview) - 81% (Heritage) - 92% (CFG) - 88% (ACU) - 83% (FreedomWorks)
Toomey (PA) - 2016 - 80% (Average) - 66% (CReview) - 71% (Heritage) - 93% (CFG) - 80% (ACU) - 91% (FreedomWorks)
Lankford (OK) - 2016 - 78% (Average) - 76% (CReview) - 80% (Heritage) - 70% (CFG) - 80% (ACU) - 84% (FreedomWorks)
Shelby (AL) - 2016 - 76% (Average) - 66% (CReview) - 75% (Heritage) - 82% (CFG) - 76% (ACU) - 83% (FreedomWorks)
Barrasso (WY) - 2016 - 75% (Average) - 67% (CReview) - 72% (Heritage) - 85% (CFG) - 88% (ACU) - 64% (FreedomWorks)
Vitter (LA) - 2016 - 75% (Average) - 76% (CReview) - 68% (Heritage) - 78% (CFG) - 79% (ACU) - 73% (FreedomWorks)
Thune (SD) - 2016 - 71% (Average) - 60% (CReview) - 60% (Heritage) - 80% (CFG) - 88% (ACU) - 67% (FreedomWorks)
Burr (NC) - 2016 - 69% (Average) - 55% (CReview) - 58% (Heritage) - 67% (CFG) - 84% (ACU) - 83% (FreedomWorks)
Moran (KS) - 2016 - 69% (Average) - 62% (CReview) - 65% (Heritage) - 75% (CFG) - 80% (ACU) - 64% (FreedomWorks)
Coats (IN) - 2016 - 66% (Average) - 49% (CReview) - 61% (Heritage) - 75% (CFG) - 83% (ACU) - 64% (FreedomWorks)
Boozman (AR) - 2016 - 64% (Average) - 49% (CReview) - 68% (Heritage) - 70% (CFG) - 80% (ACU) - 55% (FreedomWorks)
Portman (OH) - 2016 - 63% (Average) - 56% (CReview) - 55% (Heritage) - 71% (CFG) - 64% (ACU) - 67% (FreedomWorks)
McCain (AZ) - 2016 - 62% (Average) - 50% (CReview) - 52% (Heritage) - 71% (CFG) - 52% (ACU) - 83% (FreedomWorks)
Ayotte (NH) - 2016 - 59% (Average) - 44% (CReview) - 51% (Heritage) - 79% (CFG) - 68% (ACU) - 55% (FreedomWorks)
Blunt (MO) - 2016 - 58% (Average) - 35% (CReview) - 52% (Heritage) - 67% (CFG) - 71% (ACU) - 64% (FreedomWorks)
Isakson (GA) - 2016 - 55% (Average) - 44% (CReview) - 50% (Heritage) - 59% (CFG) - 54% (ACU) - 67% (FreedomWorks)
Hoeven (ND) - 2016 - 50% (Average) - 22% (CReview) - 42% (Heritage) - 58% (CFG) - 60% (ACU) - 67% (FreedomWorks)
Kirk (IL) - 2016 - 47% (Average) - 29% (CReview) - 39% (Heritage) - 74% (CFG) - 44% (ACU) - 50% (FreedomWorks)
Murkowski (AK) - 2016 - 31% (Average) - 22% (CReview) - 24% (Heritage) - 52% (CFG) - 38% (ACU) - 18% (FreedomWorks)
A lot of these guys need to be primaried, esp. Johnny Isakson.
Anyone below, say 80%, should certainly be primaried.
Its not so much the ones leaving but the ones staying that worry me.
Anyone less than 80% should be primaried. Anyone over 80% if that 20% includes anything pro amnesty or not antiobamacare.
Isn’t is striking how old the Democrats have gotten? The closest thing they have to a youthful newcomer, Elizabeth Warren, is 65. Their entire leadership is geriatric. And who are the rising stars, the people in their 30’s, 40’s and early 50’s to keep an eye on? I can name a dozen Republicans off the top of my head who fit this description, and not a single Democrat.
IMO, Isakson will not retire because he is now Senior Senator from Georgia and there isn’t a government job he didn’t covet. He’s run for anything and everything here in Georgia, he could.
In my opinion, he’s a backstabbing, quisling RINO that will lie, cheat and steal wherever he can to stay in that seat. He won’t do what he says he’ll do when he’s trying to get elected, and even when you’ve slapped him back in line, he doesn’t stay ‘slapped.’ Fighting for ideals isn’t in his nature.
All the ageing hippies that have been running the country into the ground are finally getting too old.
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