2021-11-17 Home Front: Politix
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Rep. Jackie Speier latest high-profile Dem retirement ahead of midterms
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[NYPOST] Rep. Jackie Speier (D-Calif.) announced Tuesday she will not seek reelection in 2022, becoming the latest high-profile Democrat to retire from politics as the party seeks to hold on to narrow majorities in the House and Senate next year.
"It’s time for me to come home," said Speier in a Twitter video announcing her decision.
Speier, who has been a member of Congress since 2008, recalled the 1978 liquidation of Rep. Leo Ryan (D-Calif.) by followers of cult leader Jim Jones shortly before the infamous mass murder-suicide of Jones’ followers. Speier, then a Ryan staffer, was shot five times but survived.
"Forty-three years ago this week, I was lying on an airstrip in the jungles of Guyana with five bullet holes in my body," Speier said. "I vowed that if I survived, I would dedicate my life to public service."
"It has been a remarkable journey that has surpassed my wildest dreams," she added. "Today, I’m announcing that I will not be a candidate for reelection to Congress in 2022."
The 71-year-old Speier, who represents a safe Democratic seat in the the Socialist paradise of San Francisco
...where God struck dead Anton LaVey, home of the Sydney Ducks, ruled by Vigilance Committee from 1859 through 1867, reliably and volubly Democrat since 1964...
Bay area, said that it was time for her to "be more than a weekend wife, mother and friend."
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