Carl Levin Retires | #MISEN
Mar. 7th, 2013 03:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
maxomaiSenator Carl Levin (D-MI) announced his
retirement today:
This seat would have been one of the safest Democratic seats in the
2014 elections. Now it's a scramble to see who might replace Levin,
and I wouldn't make any assumptions.
retirement today:
Levin, 78, released a statement Thursday afternoon saying
he made the decisions believing "I can best serve my state and my
nation by concentrating in the next two years on the challenging
issues before us … in other words, by doing my job without the
distraction of campaigning for re-election."
This seat would have been one of the safest Democratic seats in the
2014 elections. Now it's a scramble to see who might replace Levin,
and I wouldn't make any assumptions.
