Sources say Rep. Ehlers (R)will not run for reelection

ccharles000

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Tue Feb-09-10 09:13 PM
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Sources say Rep. Ehlers (R)will not run for reelection

MICHIGAN (NEWSCHANNEL 3) � A longtime Michigan Representative will not run for reelection.

Sources told Newschannel 3 on Tuesday that Congressman Vern Ehlers will not run for reelection in Michigan's 3rd District. The official announcement is expected to come Wednesday in Grand Rapids.

Rep. Ehlers is currently serving his eighth term in the House. Newschannel 3 has not yet received official confirmation from Rep. Ehlers office.

http://www.wwmt.com/articles/margin-1372392-bottom-rep.html

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Sanity Claws

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Tue Feb-09-10 09:15 PM
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1. Another one bites the dust

Does he want to spend more time with his family?

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Ken Burch

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Tue Feb-09-10 09:15 PM
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2. Is that a seat we'd have any chance of taking?

n/t.

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Faygo Kid

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Tue Feb-09-10 09:17 PM
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3. No. Grand Rapids area. No chance.

Southwest lower Michigan is all Rush, all the time.

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Ken Burch

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Tue Feb-09-10 09:24 PM
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5. It's the kind of place where they think Gerald Ford was a Trotskyist?

:eyes:

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Faygo Kid

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Tue Feb-09-10 09:31 PM
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6. Gerald Ford was a Republican who no longer exists.

He was a good, decent man with a wonderful wife who fought for the Equal Rights Amendment. He had his faults, but ask Jimmy Carter about him.

Jimmy Carter grew to love him. His kind of Republican no longer exists. You know, decency and character. Stuff like that.

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Ken Burch

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Tue Feb-09-10 09:37 PM
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7. You're right. And my comment was about the place, not the man.

We'd probably have been much better off as a country had Reagan agreed to Ford's "co-presidency" proposal for the 1980 ticket.

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LiberalFighter

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Tue Feb-09-10 11:34 PM
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8. Let's move it further west.

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ccharles000

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Tue Feb-09-10 09:18 PM
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4. it is R+6

but I think Obama did well here.

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