Rep. Pryce (R-OH) announced today that she will not seek re-election in 2008. Here are some interesting clips from the Dispatch article:
Pryce, 56, said family considerations were the key factor in her decision. Her daughter, Mia, 5, will be entering kindergarten next week, and Pryce said, “My daughter Caroline, who passed away, I missed a lot of growing up, and I don't want that to happen again.”
Caroline was 9 when she died of cancer in 1999. Pryce adopted Mia as a newborn in 2002.
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Pryce said that it became harder to do the job after Democrats took control of the House this year and changed the traditional Tuesday through Thursday work week to Monday through Friday.
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Pryce also said that while she had grown a thick skin from her last difficult race against Democrat Mary Jo Kilroy, whom she beat by a percentage point following a recount last year, the increasing ugliness and rancor of campaigns is taking a toll on her family and friends.
Pryce said she was ready for another close race and the prospect of one wasn't the reason for her departure.
“The ugliness of the election may have played a part in it, but certainly not the closeness of it,” she said.
Full Article at the Dispatch
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