Bayh Not Running for Gov in 2012

[democraticinsurgent]

U.S. Sen. Evan Bayh will not seek a return engagement as Indiana’s governor in 2012.

“It was a very hard decision,” said Bayh, who served two terms as the state’s top executive from 1989 to 1997. “A big part of me wants to.”

But, he told The Indianapolis Star (read Bayh's statement), he decided that not disrupting his twin sons’ lives, now that they are freshmen in high school, took precedence over political ambition.

Bayh’s decision ends, at least for now, an era in Indiana politics. The son of former U.S. Sen. Birch Bayh, he burst onto the political scene in 1986 when at age 30 he won election as secretary of state before sweeping to victory as governor two years later.

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