Report: Congressman Jim Saxton (R-NJ) To Retire
Republicans will apparently have yet another vacant House seat to deal with this cycle. PolitickerNJ reports that 12-term Congressman Jim Saxton (R-NJ) will not seek re-election.
President Bush carried this district by only three points against John Kerry — the same as Bush's national margin that year — so expect the Dems to make a major push for the open seat in what is expected to be a much more Democratic year.
Saxton had already attracted a strong challenger in state Senator John Adler, a leading South Jersey Democrat.
Late Update: It's official.
Comments (9)
phil james wrote on November 9, 2007 2:02 PM:Is it true that Saxton and Mukassey are one and the same person?
michael valentne wrote on November 9, 2007 2:03 PM:Until and or unless the Republicans support an impeachment to show they care more for the country then for a failed Republican President, well all these open seats will go Democratic.
Republicans? Good riddance to selfish trash.
totallynext wrote on November 9, 2007 2:05 PM:phil james wrote on November 9, 2007 2:02 PM:
Ha! - I thought the exact some thing - Brothers from another mother?
Daniel wrote on November 9, 2007 2:12 PM:Wow, major news. NJ-05 was already rated a toss-up in Campaign Diaries's latest complete House rankings, and it is likely to be one of the most contested seats in the cycle.
Rowdy wrote on November 9, 2007 2:22 PM:Don't all old white men look alike?
...sorry... couldn't resist.
brian wrote on November 9, 2007 2:25 PM:
This congressman just could not face what he had to do to get re-elected.
The 2008 Republican campaign will set a new record as the most low-down ever.
The Republicans' only hope is to appeal to the voter's most basic impulses, far down in the brain stem.
There will be fear, of course, and name-calling, bullying, overly made-up news 'reporter' cheesecakes (with severe potty mouth), allegations of lurid scandal...
Fear of Iran, of China, of immigrants, of liberals, of socialized medicine, of terrorism ... the more irrational, the better.
The idea : distract people from asking where all that money went, why is the constitution being violated, what happened to our currency, our credit, our foreign policy ...
This amygdala-centered strategy is meant to
Let me take a guess what will happen over the course of the next year. The "sane" GOPers in competitive districts will retire as they realize their reelections will be futile. The one's in uncompetitive districts will continue to blindly follow Mister 25%. The one's in the middle will all of sudden have a mass conversion to the light once their primary is over and they need to track to the left. Why do you think there has been this mass hysteria to move the primary dates? Don't believe the bobble heads argument that the individual state's want to have a say in who the next President will be. It is so the incumbants can get past their primaries and put together a "centrist" message to sell the electorate.
pedant wrote on November 9, 2007 3:42 PM:JoeP, where on earth did you ever get the idea that simple words like "one" and "state" are pluralized by using an apostrophe in addition to the letter s? Ones. States. Not one's and state's. Christ, I learned this in the third grade.
Mark wrote on November 10, 2007 5:53 AM:pedant, I agree! I am so sick of people writing plurals with apostrophes. Typically, JoeP forms correct plurals elsewhere in his post ("GOPers", "districts", "dates"), indicating that he believes the apostrophe is optional for pluralizing - you use it if you feel like it! Note also the reference to the "bobble heads argument", in which JoeP *omits* the apostrophe that should be after the s. Maybe he used it to form one of his "plurals". Sheesh.
