ALLEN WEST Will Run in More GOP-Friendly Florida District
Posted by Jim Hoft on Tuesday, January 31, 2012, 9:05 PM
Allen West decides to get the hell out of District 17.
Popular conservative Rep. Allen West announced today that he will run in the proposed 17th district on west coast of Florida.
The Huffington Post reported:
Rep. Allen West’s (R-Fla.) re-election prospects just got a lot better.
West announced Tuesday that he was running to the north in the proposed 18th Congressional District. Rep. Tom Rooney (R-Fla.) is leaving that district to run in the proposed 17th Congressional District on the west coast of Florida.
“After much prayer, reflection and discussion with my close friends and family, I am announcing today my decision to seek re-election in Florida’s proposed 18th Congressional District,” said West in a statement. “I have always believed the state of Florida would be best served by having both Congressman Tom Rooney and myself in the House of Representatives working to solve our nation’s most pressing problems.”
Meanwhile, the Miami Herald reports that Republican U.S. Senate candidate Adam Hasner is leaving the race to run for West’s old seat in the 22nd District.
Re-election previously looked more perilous for West, whose swing district was in the process of being redrawn into being more Democratic.
He already had drawn two Democratic opponents, Patrick Murphy and former West Palm Beach Mayor Lois Frankel.
Frankel reacted to West’s announcement Tuesday in a statement. “Allen West just announced that he is cutting and running from a fight with me — he is retreating to another district,” she said. “I am staying right here in the 22nd Congressional District.”
ADVERTISEMENT
-
Featured Story:
Rough Night… Obama Loses 36 Arkansas Counties to Unknown Democrat – Loses 67 Kentucky Counties to “Uncommitted”
Published May 23, 2012 at 4:57 am - 64 Comments
Matt commented:
Why does he get to choose? Where does he live?
Mama Grizzly commented:
Good leadership–keep heading toward the target. Heard on Rush that it wasn’t a conspiracy from the Romney camp after all (the redistricting). It was federal law.
I hate rumors.
So glad West is still a part of this battle.
bg commented:
++
we are truly blessed to have Allen West..
thank you for all you do sir..
there is a God, and we are the people, Amen..
==
bg commented:
++
Orlando Florida – January 31, 2012
Newt Gingrich: “We are Going to Contest Everyplace”
==
Opus#6@AmericanPerspective commented:
West is best.
Taxpayer commented:
Nicely played, Col. West! Nicely played!
Estragon commented:
West could have stayed and won. A few more Democratic voters wouldn’t have killed him – he has a high profile, good approval, and already has a national fundraising network.
But it is his choice. I’m just glad the conspiracy nuts will have to STFU now – until their next paranoid hallucinations.
You do not have to live in a House district, and the redistricting could not by law consider where current Representatives live anyway. You only have to be a resident of the state you will represent, not the district.
donh commented:
Tea Party achieved a wonderful spectrum of victories in 2010. Religious conservatives, women, hispanics, blacks. Just what the party needs. Then along come Mitt with his wall street cash and his cabal of establishment cronies…..Palin gets a beat down, Bachmann gets a beat down, Cain gets a high tech lynching, and now they even go after a war vet Allen West for daring to speak truth to power……..How hard people have worked to demonstrate that Republicans are not a closed country club of rich white wall street racist sexist aholes….and along comes Mitt and his carpetbag full of cash.
Molon Labe commented:
Clearly this was an attempt to kill West by the usual suspects in the Florida GOP. As it became clear what they had done they realized they either would have to provide a way out for West or face the anger of voters. Clearly they feared what was coming and the publicity was too much for these scheming clowns.
Frankel is just another Leftard harpy with a very big mouth and knee pads.
wanumba commented:
THe Democrats managed to hire a Obama campaign company to redistrict Arizona. Our GOP REP is shifting districts due to the same shuffling – the DEMS did their job .. and it was ALL “correct” to the law.
THe GOP ELites are either asleep at the wheel as the DEMS use every mechanism in the book to eat away underneath the GOP or they don’t mind it.
Calliegirl commented:
America needs tough no nonsense leaders .
RedBeard commented:
There was no grand conspiracy to harm West. Good grief.
Southeast Florida is a political cesspool, polluted by leftist transplants from New York and other statist enclaves of the northeast U.S. Carpetbaggers.
And some are too senile to be trusted at the voting booth. Remember the scenario of Democrat operatives roaming the hallways of retirement condos, handing out cheat sheets explaining to the dottery old carpetbaggers how to vote for the Dem candidate without having to actually think? Sickening.
burt commented:
Cooperation between Democrats and Republicans. Let’s stick it to the taxpayer!
burt commented:
If Dennis Kucinich can move to the west coast and Hillary Clinton can move to New York, I guest West can move 20 miles to a new district in Flordia.
burt commented:
Sorry, typo error. You spelling nazis know what I meant.
Karma's a Bit*h commented:
The Romney rumor was started by Shark Tank….he is a VERY UNRELIABLE SOURCE! People need to STOP reading his rumor mill crap!
The redistricting was more the Florida establishment that don’t like that West does not conform! Bunch of RINOs who all happened to endorse Romney! We need West no matter where he goes…he is the only one with the balls to say what WE feel!