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Sat May 26, 2007 at 11:37 PM CDT
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| State Rep. Anna Mowery (R) confirmed Friday night that she is retiring from the Texas House and won't seek re-election in 2008. The Fort Worth Republican is the first to acknowledge plans to retire. Mowery is a supporter of Speaker Tom Craddick. In facing Democrat Dan Barrett last November, she pulled only 56% of the vote, under performing the 61% top of the ticket average. Given the successes of Dallas area Democrats in 2006, expect Mowery's HD-97 to be on the target list as an open seat.
Word comes today that there may be a retirement on the Democratic side of the aisle as well. Rep. Arron Pena (D) who has been the point of discussion at BOR the last weeks of the session, has told the Valley Morning Star that he may seek to retire as well.
Rep. Aaron Pena, D-Edinburg, strongly suggested in an interview Friday evening that he might not run again for the Legislature now that his six-year quest to have a drug treatment center built in the Valley is coming to a close.
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"When I first ran, my commitment was to build a drug-treatment center, and now that it’s done, I feel like my work is done here," Pena said. Pena, 47, said he did not know when he would decide definitively whether to run for another two-year term. His term ends in January 2009.
"It’s like you run a race and you’ve finished," he said. "I never expected to finish this quickly. I don’t need to run again. I’m going to go home and reflect and enjoy my time with family and decide whether I want to do this again."
Of course, the actions of Craddick and the treatment of the House Rules may of course be playing into members' decisions. Why would anyone want to come back for another session to see the process tortured in such inconceivable ways? |
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