Senator Barbara Boxer Says She Won’t Seek Re-election in 2016
Posted on AllSides January 8th, 2015
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Senator Barbara Boxer announced Thursday that she would not seek re-election as senator from California, ending a 30-year career in Congress and breaking a generational logjam in a state where the three top political officeholders are over 70 years old.
“I am never going to retire — the work is too important,” Ms. Boxer, a Democrat, said in a video interview with her oldest grandson. “But I am not going to be running for the Senate in 2016.”
The decision by Ms. Boxer, who is 74, was widely expected and...
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