Sen. Tom Coburn Announces Early Retirement

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http://www.ktul.com/story/24477438/sen-tom-coburn-announces-early-retirement

Senator Tom Coburn will be resigning from his seat, two years before the end of his term.

Coburn, the Republican senator from Muskogee, issued a statement this evening announcing his retirement. Coburn will finish the current congressional session, which ends in Jan. 2015.




Well, one way to waste good money is quit early and burden your electorate with the expense of locating another Senator mid-term

 

[Spata]

Did his cancer come back?

 

[caojyn]

 

[71buickfreak]

I know a lot of you don't care for him, but I have a lot of respect for him. I may not agree with him all the time, but he has done what he said he was going to do, I respect that.

I am however, disappointed that he is resigning his seat. I am sure it is due to a health concern.

 

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Did his cancer come back?

Coburn stated that his decision was not made because of his latest battle against cancer.

But who knows for sure.

 

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I know a lot of you don't care for him, but I have a lot of respect for him. I may not agree with him all the time, but he has done what he said he was going to do, I respect that.

I am however, disappointed that he is resigning his seat. I am sure it is due to a health concern.

I disagreed with about 85% of his politics, but I liked him because he knew how to affect political gridlock that would bring Congress to its knees (which says something). I mean, this stunt was just awesome.

 

[RickN]

I know a lot of you don't care for him, but I have a lot of respect for him. I may not agree with him all the time, but he has done what he said he was going to do, I respect that.

I am however, disappointed that he is resigning his seat. I am sure it is due to a health concern.

Same here. One of the better people in DC.

 

[tRidiot]

I saw him at a town hall meeting once. He sounded just like every other politician I've ever heard in my life. I wasn't impressed.

 

[DavidMcmillan]

Tom is a friend of mine, for many years. Yes, his cancer has returned. He has been much different than the average politician. I haven't agreed with all of his positions, but they have been his positions. He has never sold out to special interests. The timing of his resignation is so that there will not need to be a special election. He is a good man, with principles, and there are not many like that in DC.

 

[Grendel]

I've run into him, literally, a couple of times at the Tulsa PAC. He was every bit as arrogant and full of himself as I expected any politician to be.