We won't have Inquisitor GOWDY to kick around anymore in '16 - or *will* we?!1

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http://www.mediaite.com/online/republican-congressman-claims-trey-gowdy-will-retire-in-2016/

[font size=5] Republican Congressman Claims Trey Gowdy Will Retire in 2016[/font]
by Alex Griswold | 10:50 am, September 30th, 2015

Republican Congressman Trey Gowdy will not seek election in the 2016 race for his House seat, according to fellow Republican Congressman John Fleming.

“At the end of his term… he plans to go back home, and he wants to finish his work on the Benghazi special committee,” Fleming said on C-SPAN Wednesday morning. “But he loves South Carolina and he loves his family, and he wants to go back and spend the rest of his life there.” Fleming claimed that Gowdy himself told him about the pending retirement.

Gowdy is best known for leading the congressional investigation into the State Department’s handling of the 2011 Benghazi attacks. Gowdy’s subpoena of then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s emails helped spark the revelation that Clinton was operating a private email server. Indeed, in an interview Tuesday night, House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy credited the committee for Clinton’s plummeting poll numbers.

If true, Gowdy’s retirement would be surprising given that many prominent GOP members of Congress were openly trying to draft him to replace outgoing Speaker of the House John Boehner, and at least one claimed he would definitely run for a position in House leadership.



UPDATE (10:27 AM ET): “No- He has not made any announcement on 2016,” a Gowdy spokesperson tells IJ Review. But at the same time, note that Gowdy’s office isn’t denying that he plans to retire, just that he made any announcement to that effect.

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[font size=5]“Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!”[/font]


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http://www.leoslyrics.com/mel-brooks/the-inquisition-lyrics/#7Ajbci1EQRCkMoT9.99
[font size=5] The Inquisition[/font]
Artist: Mel Brooks Lyrics
Album: Miscellaneous Album Lyrics

The Inquisition (What a show)
The Inquisition (Here we go)
We know you’re wishing that we’d go away
But the Inquisition’s here and it’s here to stay

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1. i'll bet there's a cushy lobbying job waiting for him