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30 Years Later, Nolan Considers Comeback Bid
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| Contributor | Jason |
| Last Edited | Jason Jun 07, 2011 02:54pm |
| Category | General |
| News Date | Jun 07, 2011 02:00am |
| Description | The story of former Rep. Richard Nolan’s possible comeback attempt more than 30 years after he last served in the House may end up merely as an asterisk in any post-mortem of the 2012 election cycle.
But for those of us who love the ebb and flow of politics, it could offer a window into how politics has changed — and how it hasn’t.
Attempted comebacks aren’t all that rare. A number of former Members run each cycle, and sometimes Members who have been retired for many years suddenly get the urge to re-enter the arena. In 2006, for example, Ohio Democrat Bob Shamansky took on Rep. Patrick Tiberi (R) 24 years after Tiberi’s predecessor, John Kasich (R), had ousted Shamansky from Congress.
Nolan was elected to Congress three times, the first time with the Watergate class of 1974. His Congressional district stretched from the southwest corner of the state into central Minnesota.
An unapologetic liberal who strongly opposed the Vietnam War, he served three terms and then, at the age of 37 in 1980, simply walked away. Republican Vin Weber, who had already been mounting an aggressive challenge to the Democrat, won the open seat.
Nolan, wrote the late Ward Sinclair in the Washington Post as 1980 was coming to a close, “is going back to the rural area of Minnesota he represented to take up farming and remake a life upset by a divorce spurred in part by politics.” |
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