Posted on 12/09/2015 7:22:38 PM PST by Impala64ssa
A Florida Republican congressman who clashed with former House Speaker John Boehner said Monday that he will not run for re-election next year.
Rep. Rich Nugent, a Republican whose 11th district covers Hernando, Citrus, Sumter and part of Marion counties, says the job has forced him to spend too much time away from his family.
Nugent had been a member of the House Rules Committee. But in January, he was among 25 rebellious conservative Republicans who voted against re-electing Boehner, R-Ohio, as speaker. Soon after that vote, Nugent was removed from the Rules panel a committee over which the speaker had strong sway in picking members.
Also removed from that panel was Rep. Daniel Webster, R-Fla., for whom Nugent had voted and who voted for himself for speaker.
Boehner retired from Congress last week, under fire from a band of House conservatives who considered him too autocratic and too willing to reach compromises with President Barack Obama.
Nugent, 64, is in his fifth year in Congress.
His Gulf Coast Florida district is considered safely Republican in next November's elections. Nugent received two-thirds of the vote in 2014, and in 2012 GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney received 59 percent of its vote against Obama. The district includes The Villages.
"We care deeply about shrinking the size and scope of government," Nugent said in a statement announcing his decision. "We care deeply about restoring America's place in the world. We'll get somebody new somebody with real fire in the belly who shares our beliefs and is ready to give it a shot in Washington."
Jeez, I wish he would reconsider...we need men and women of his character in Congress as we continue the fight.
Fixed it.
Rich is a good man. But he was handed this seat 5 years ago by Ginny-Brown Waite. Total insider dealing.
Bingo.
Hopefully a Conservative Republican will hold the seat, but if Hillary is selected it won't matter much, she will continue the thieving ways of Hussein Obama...
This Nation will get totally destroyed...
Can we pressure his cousin Ted to step in?
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