Thread: GOP presidential hopeful Ron Paul to retire from House

Jul 12, 2011

GOP presidential hopeful Ron Paul to retire from House

By Catalina Camia, USA TODAY
Updated 4m ago
Updated at 12:25 p.m. ET

Texas Rep. Ron Paul says he won't run for another term in Congress so he can concentrate on his bid for the GOP presidential nomination.

In a message posted on his Facebook page, Paul announced his retirement from the U.S. House.

"I have decided not to seek re-election for my House seat in 2012 and will focus all of my energy winning the presidency," he wrote.

Paul, 75, told a local paper in his congressional district that he didn't want to be distracted by running two campaigns at once. The libertarian-thinking candidate, who has a devoted following among supporters of his small government views, is running in his third White House campaign.

"I felt it was better that I concentrate on one election," Paul told The Facts, which covers Brazoria County, Texas. "It's about that time when I should change tactics."

By announcing his decision early, Paul told the newspaper he was giving would-be successors in the 14th District enough time to think about running for Congress.

Paul, an obstetrician-gynecologist before he went into politics, was first elected to Congress in 1976 from a South Texas seat that had never been represented by a Republican. He made an unsuccessful bid to unseat then-Sen. Phil Gramm in 1984 and went back to his medical practice for a while. (Political trivia: Paul's successor in that House seat was a Republican named Tom DeLay.)

After running for president as a libertarian in 1988, Paul published an investment newsletter and then a political one to highlight his free-market views. He ran for Congress again in 1996, challenging incumbent Greg Laughlin in the GOP primary after Laughlin bolted the Democratic Party to become a Republican.

Paul has been easily re-elected to the House ever since. The district, which runs along the Gulf Coast, includes Galveston, Victoria and Lake Jackson.

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I think he is doing so for his other son can run there in Texas.His son said he wanted to run for congress,Ron has been in long enough.I still think there ought to be term limits.

Originally Posted by duckman

I think he is doing so for his other son can run there in Texas.His son said he wanted to run for congress,Ron has been in long enough.I still think there ought to be term limits.

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