Well, it appears that death is not the only thing to take a Kennedy out of congress.
Rhode Island congressman Patrick Kennedy is going to formally announce he will not seek
reelection to congress in the upcoming mid-term elections.
The announcement will be televised in Rhode Island on Sunday.
Congressman Kennedy has been a chip off the old block as the son of the late Sen. Teddy Kennedy.
In 2006, finally, Congressman Kennedy and the drinking caught up with him as he crashed his car outside the Capitol in Washington, D. C. in 2006. Since then, congressman Kennedy has been in and out of rehab.
This seems to close the political chapter in the Kennedy saga. And it is about time.
The rum-running Kennedy clan is now about to slip off the political stage at a time that the name does not carry the weight it once did.
Importantly, Congressman Kennedy may now really be able to get his life together. And that is a good thing.
And politically, the Republicans may still get a seat out of Blue as Blue Rhode Island.
Stay tuned.
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