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Public office after he did get reelected in 2006, he announced he would retire and wouldn t run again. he said it was time to take on new challenges. instead of running for reelection in the next summer around, 2000, eight he endorsed a new republican to take a seat, a guy named chris lee. chris really seemed like a real up and comer in the republican party, he ended up winning the time reynolds seat by a huge margin. margin. this is a great republican district. he was an anti-gay, anti-proportion republican, a married, family values kind of guy who really campaigned on that as one of the reasons he should be in congress. he voted against the appeal of don t ask don t tell, gay people in the military, fair pay act, even though christy was this up incoming conservative republican from a totally safe republican seat in new york, his time in congress ended up being short lived. ....
It was a narrow victory for him given the size and the shape of that district. and that would be his last race for public office. after hedid get re-elected in 2006 he announced he would retire and he wouldn t run again. he said it was time for him to take on new challenges. and so instead of running for reelection the next time around in 2008 he endorsed a new republican to take his seat, a guy named chris lee. and chris lee seemed like a real up and comer in the republican party. this was a really republican district. chris lee was a vocal anti-gay, anti-abortion republican, a married family values kind of guy who really campaigned on that as one of the reasons he should be in congress. he voted against the repeal of don t ask don t teleabout gay people serving openly in the military. he voted against the fair pay act for women getting equal pay. but even though chris lee was this up-and-coming conservative ....
Then russia down his ability to off that pretense my guess about that is that he is not going to run again and this is all about raising money. is that what you are saying? you know lawrence, i thought that for a long time he wouldn t run again because he lost so badly to joe biden. biden, that i didn t think he would never want to put himself in a position to lose again. i think that would ve been the case if not for two things. one, he seems still to be getting away with everything, right? and to, the republican party is trying to engineer a system in which the minority can come into power because of all of these, i think we are up to hundreds, a voter suppression bills that are being passed in every single state. if they are successful in doing this and rigging the system even more in their favor, then and donald gets the message that if he ....
Democrats have not said this publicly but they have certainly signalled it privately, that they wanted to have their portion wrapped up by the end of the year, which would then tee up a senate trial in january, so that they wouldn t run up against the iowa caucuses. because they didn t want the messaging confusion out there, that you have, you know, senators, and democrats in the house back here trying to impeach president trump and then you have presidential candidates to include a handful of senators themselves, trying to replace president trump at the ballot box. so if there is anything that would help focus their minds, i think it would be the 02020 election that is almost upon us. and people going to the polls in iowa and new hampshire in less than two months. what a mess this is going to be. nbc s geoff bennet, thank you very much. good to see you. fallout from the democrats smallest debate lineup yet. are there any clear winners today? and as 2019 comes to a close, we want ....
and that there may have been a connection to the black community. that warren and buttigieg don t necessarily have. all right. i got you. let s talk about former may your of new york city. who filed paper to run for president. he apologized for supporting stop and frisk. which targets african americans and latin men. what are your thoughts on the apology and too the timing? it s not on brand. he said he wouldn t run if he had to apologize for what he he s done. he criticized people from apologizing. calling it an apology tour. exactly. now he s thinking about running he has high paid consultants telling him you can t have a ....