Feb 12, 2010

Patrick Kennedy will not seek re-election


Patrick Kennedy (pictured) had announced he will not seek re-election as a Congressman from Deleware.

The 42-year-old representative is in his eighth term in office. He is the youngest of three children of the late Sen. Edward M. Kennedy.

Congressman Patrick Kennedy’s former chief of staff had this to say:

“Kennedy's decision absolutely, unequivocally has nothing to do with the congressman's poor showing in recent polls, the shocking election of another little-known Republican state legislator, Scott Brown, to his father's Senate seat or the generally grim mood of voters in Rhode Island and around the country.”

Coincidently, the reasons cited above are the exact reasons Patrick Kennedy has chosen to cut and run.

Kennedy joins a list of other Democrats who have chosen not to seek re-election in 2010.

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