Patrick Kennedy won't run for re-election  

Patrick Kennedy announces he will not seek re-election,seems Patrick Kennedy has some very serious addictions in his life that very well could impair his judgment, perhaps it is a good thing he is not seeking re-election.
For now this announcement seems to signal the end of a very long Kennedy rein in our government.
In my opinion seeing the direct our country has been taken in for some time it is good the old dog's move out of our way,what say you?

(End of the Kennedy rein)

Rhode Island Democratic Rep. Patrick Kennedy will retire after eight terms in office, bringing an end to his House career just months after his father, legendary Massachusetts Sen. Ted Kennedy, passed away.
him off.
Kennedy's time in Congress was decidedly uneven. He was rumored to be planning a Senate bid in 2000 but decided against running. He was tasked with chairing the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee in that same cycle with expectations within the party that they would seize back control of the House. It didn't happen.

After his stint at the DCCC, Kennedy took on a far less high-profile role in Congress -- emerging only infrequently and not always in the best light. In the spring of 2006 Kennedy crashed his car into a police barricade near Capitol Hill; he entered rehab for addiction and depression days later. Over the summer, Kennedy admitted himself to a rehabilitation facility again.

Patrick Kennedy's retirement means that for the first time in nearly five decades there will not be a member of the Kennedy family in Congress. His father, who served Massachusetts in the Senate for more than four decades, died on August 25.

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