After spending time with his family at their lake house, Rep. Paul Mitchell (R-MI) announced his retirement, saying that “there’s a whole world out there outside this city that’s a pretty damn nice place.”
“You look at the rhetoric and vitriol, it overwhelms policy, politics becomes the norm,” he told Politico Playbook. “Everything’s about politics. Everything’s about an election. And at some point of time, that’s not why I came here. ”
“I was commenting earlier to our senior staff, ‘Do we see the next four [years], in the near term, the better angels coming out of this?'” he added.
Mitchell is leaving a very safe Republican seat in a district President Donald Trump won by more than 30 points.
Maybe if you had the courage to call out your leadership as the culprits, Rep. Mitchell, there’s a chance that positive change could begin.
I guess Simon Legree had some beefs about slavery, too…
As if there is nothing a Republican in a "very safe Republican seat " can do about it.
The post Congress gravy train is much more appealing than that.
Well, I imagine if I had the luxury of contemplation at my lake house, I might come to the same conclusion.