Wisconsin Republican Jim Sensenbrenner won't run for re-election in 2020 after more than 40 years in [View all]

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Source: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel


Craig Gilbert, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Published 5:28 p.m. CT Sept. 4, 2019 | Updated 5:50 p.m. CT Sept. 4, 2019




Wisconsin Republican Jim Sensenbrenner, the second longest-serving member of the U.S. House of Representatives, will not run for a 22nd term, he said Wednesday.

Sensenbrenner made his first public announcement Wednesday on The Mark Belling Show on WISN-AM (1130).

In a separate interview with the Journal Sentinel, he said, “I think the time has come to basically turn over the page in the Fifth District.”

The 76-year-old congressman has long represented the GOP’s geographic base in Wisconsin — the suburban, exurban and rural communities north and west of Milwaukee County that historically turn out in droves for Republican candidates and provide a large share of the party’s activists and political leaders.........................................


Said Sensenbrenner:

“You can see the end of the line sometime. Being able to do this on my timetable rather than after a redistricting in 2022 will allow me to go out on a high note … This is just me feeling the time would be coming in the next few years, and I think this is the best time for me personally, and for both the Republican Party and for me politically.”


At 42 years, a Wisconsin milestone

Read more: https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/politics/elections/2019/09/04/wisconsins-jim-sensenbrenner-wont-seek-22nd-term-u-s-house/2215112001/

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