Steve Israel (D-NY) will not seek another term in Congress, Newsday is reporting.
The former Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee chairman will step down from Congress to write a second book.
“It is time for me to pursue new passions and develop new interests, mainly spend more time writing my second novel,” Israel said in a statement to Newsday.
Israel first won election in 2000 and is currently serving his eighth term.
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Good riddance. This is the guy who ran the DCCC (the party group that helps get Dems elected to the House). He gladly supported Blue Dog Dems but refused to support any progressives, even when they had a good shot at winning a seat with a little help from the party. He is one of Nancy Pelosi’s biggest mistakes and she hasn’t made that many.
Bye,bye.
I wonder which revolving door lobby or corporate board scam will give him his payday for all his treachery - this jerk is the poster boy for everything that’s wrong with the DCCC/DNC. Their fundraising is done with no intent of ever winning Congress or the off-term elections. If they did they’d address turnout. The progressive cause is lost unless we can sever ties once and for all with the corruption that runs through the entire operation of Israel, Wasserman-Schultz, Schumer, Emanuel, Feinstein, Schuler, Lincoln et al.
There seems a whole lot going on in Suffolk County right now with the US Attorney sniffing about - seems like the Dems would be well served with someone who was not running a re-election with the political machinery there being brought out
May he let a lot of doors hit him on the way out.