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Jose Garcia

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Tue Jan 31, 2017, 03:22 PM Jan 2017

Susan Brooks won't challenge Joe Donnelly for U.S. Senate seat

Source: The Indianapolis Star

WASHINGTON -- Democratic Sen. Joe Donnelly may already be feeling the pressure from outside groups hoping to stop his 2018 re-election bid, but he won’t have to face one potentially formidable opponent.

Rep. Susan Brooks, R-Carmel, is passing on the challenge.

"Our country has many opportunities and challenges ahead, and I love and am focused on being a strong leader for the Fifth District in Congress,” Brooks said in a statement.

Other GOP members of the delegation, such as Reps. Luke Messer or Todd Rokita, still could announce a bid.

Read more: http://www.indystar.com/story/news/politics/behind-closed-doors/2017/01/31/brooks-wont-challenge-donnelly-us-senate-seat/97282986/

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Susan Brooks won't challenge Joe Donnelly for U.S. Senate seat (Original Post) Jose Garcia Jan 2017 OP
And Ryan Zinke will be Interior Secretary. Dawson Leery Jan 2017 #1
Rokita is probably the greater threat FBaggins Jan 2017 #2

Dawson Leery

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1. And Ryan Zinke will be Interior Secretary.
Tue Jan 31, 2017, 04:10 PM
Jan 2017

Get them out of the congress. Let the GOP put of their second tier morons.

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