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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAnother Texas Republican announces retirement.
Just announced as Breaking on MSNBC.
https://www.everythinglubbock.com/news/state-regional/rep-mac-thornberry-announces-he-will-not-seeking-re-election/
Seems odd that it's a huge chunk of Texas Republicans that are retiring. Are their internal polls showing something?
dalton99a
(81,475 posts)Gothmog
(145,176 posts)NewJeffCT
(56,828 posts)that a lot of those suburban and more moderate Republicans were hurt financially by the Trump/Ryan tax scam and are upset - Texas has no income tax, but the wealthy/upscale suburbs around Dallas and Houston have high property taxes to pay for the good schools and many of them got tagged by the SALT limit.
blogslut
(38,000 posts)It really is. Thornberry. TX 13th. Ya'll just have no idea.
dalton99a
(81,475 posts)blogslut
(38,000 posts)But Thornberry actually, factually, represents theee reddest district in the nation, per the Cook Partisan Voting Index:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas%27s_13th_congressional_district
Dude's been a congressman for 25 years.
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)You don't get the nice offices, you can't call committee or subcommittee meetings, even Fox waits a few days before returning your calls, and then the answer is "Sorry." There's probably a different (stated) reason for each of these retirements, but at root I'd say it's because Republicans aren't running the House and calling the shots anymore. It's frustrating, your political adversaries have you outnumbered and outvoted, the folks back home are upset that you're not doing more (some of them might realize you can't to anything more, but it works out the same way), and everywhere you turn your party is getting beat up.
Some of them are, for sure, in districts where the demographic is changing, and not for the better. Might as well get while the getting's good and start collecting that pension.