Delahunt will not seek reelection

[jefferson_dem]

Delahunt will not seek reelection
Posted by Jason Tuohey March 4, 2010 07:30 PM
By Susan Milligan, Globe Staff



WASHINGTON -- Representative William Delahunt will not seek re-election to Congress, the seven-term Democrat will announce tomorrow, ending a nearly 40-year career in elected office and giving Republicans hope of capturing the seat, which stretches from Cape Cod to the South Shore.
"It's got nothing to do with politics," the Quincy Democrat said today. "Life is about change. I think it's healthy. It's time."

The 68-year-old lawmaker said he has been considering leaving the House for several years, but was talked out of it two years ago by the late Senator Edward M. Kennedy, who convinced his friend he should stay and help President Obama with his first-term agenda.

"He said, 'Come on -- this is a new time. It's a new era. We have a new president. We're all needed," Delahunt recalled Kennedy telling him. Once Kennedy died last year, Delahunt said he grappled with whether to stay and work on the issues Kennedy held dear.

"Clearly, since his death, there's something missing. There's a void. With the void, you feel the need to be here because there's much to do," Delahunt said wistfully in an exclusive interview.

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[TheCowsCameHome]

1. No surprise there.

The Amy Bishop mess would've finished him off anyway.

[babylonsister]

2. Sigh. Another one? nt

[bbinacan]

3. I'm reminded of the phrase,

rats off a sinking ship.

[FrenchieCat]

4. I'm reminded of the phrase......New Blood? Good!

Give another Democrat a chance.

oh...and the fucking ship isn't sinking.....
unless you buy mediawhore orders.

[bbinacan]

5. Works for me. n/t

[8 track mind]

8. You know the guy is old and just wants to retire, perhaps. N/t

[SoxFan]

6. All politics is local

Delahunt is tangled up in a mess concerning Amy Bishop, the nutty professor who went on a shooting spree in Huntsville, AL a few weeks ago.

Bishop, who grew up in the Boston suburbs, "accidentally" shot and killed her brother back in the mid-1980s. Charges were never filed, but the whole thing was never really cleared up. Delahunt was the district attorney for Norfolk County at the time, and the Globe and Herald have been roasting him (as well as the Braintree police) for the handling of the Bishop case.

[Cha]

7. Oh dear..thanks for that information

At the time of reading about her history of getting away with it the first time..I wondered who it would come back to haunt besides all those people she killed and their loved one.