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GOP candidate Kelly won't make third run for Giffords's House seat
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| Contributor | IndyGeorgia |
| Last Edited | IndyGeorgia Jun 14, 2012 03:18pm |
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| Author | Josh Lederman |
| News Date | Thursday, June 14, 2012 09:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Republican Jesse Kelly, who lost Tuesday’s special election to replace former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.), will not run again in the regular election against Rep.-elect Ron Barber (D-Ariz.).
Two Republican sources told The Hill that Kelly would be making an announcement later Thursday, but has indicated he will not run.
Kelly’s decision clears the way for retired Air Force Col. Martha McSally to clinch the GOP nomination to take on Barber.
On the Democratic side, Barber will face a primary challenge from state Rep. Matthew Heinz.
Barber, a former Giffords aide, defeated Kelly by almost 7 points on Tuesday and will be sworn into office next week. But Barber can only count on being in Congress for the next six months.
The timing of Giffords’s resignation in January set off a complex sequence of events that one Arizona operative described as a Rubik’s cube. A special primary and general election were held to finish Giffords’s term, which expires at the end of the year. In August — just two months after the special election — voters in southern Arizona will return to the polls for another primary, followed by a general election in November for the full term starting in 2013. |
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