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Illinois Democrat Gutierrez Confirms Retirement Plans
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| Last Edited | COSDem Mar 06, 2007 11:41pm |
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| News Date | Wednesday, March 7, 2007 05:40:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Illinois Democratic Rep. Luis V. Gutierrez confirmed to Congressional Quarterly on Tuesday that his current eighth House term will be his last — though for a different reason than he had originally hoped.
In December 2005, Gutierrez said he would seriously consider a bid against entrenched Chicago Democratic Mayor Richard M. Daley in the city’s February 2007 election — even as the congressman sought re-election in November 2006, a given in the overwhelmingly Democratic, Hispanic-majority 4th District, where he has never faced a serious general election challenge. Gutierrez also said his 2006 House re-election race would be his last congressional campaign.
After the Democrats won control of the House in last November’s elections, Gutierrez bowed out and said that he would not challenge Daley, who went on to a typical landslide re-election last month.
But Gutierrez told CQ that he is nonetheless going to retire from the House when his current 110th Congress term expires after the 2008 elections.
Gutierrez, 53, plans to step aside even though he is serving in the first Democratic-controlled House in a dozen years. Gutierrez was a freshman when Democrats last held the House majority, in the 103rd Congress of 1993-94; the Republican Party captured control in the 1994 election and held it until last year’s Democratic resurgence. |
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