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April 25, 2005
Breaking News: Richard Morrison withdraws from District 22 Race
Just got this email from Richard Morrison:
Dear Friends and Supporters,It is with great sadness that I must withdraw my name from the race for District 22. As you all know I devoted 2 years of my life to win and placed my law practice on hold. With the prospects of having to spend another 2 years winning a primary and then challenging DeLay, my family’s financial situation is not the rosiest. My wife is expecting our 5th child in August and I feel that I must devote my time to getting my financial house in order. I think the biggest issue this county faces is our national debt and for me and mine to be facing debt that could quickly become unmanageable is irresponsible and unwise.
My mother and children's grandmother has also been diagnosed with cancer of the pancreas. She has vowed to me that she will fight it every step of the way and I have committed to help her with that fight. I ask for your prayers for her and my father.
I am not giving up my fight. I will continue to stay active and work hard for Democrats. I ask that you do the same. Tom DeLay is bad for democracy and bad for America. If I can be so bold, I demand that each one of you will commit to work as hard for Congressman Lampson or Councilman Quan as you did for me. Democracy will suffer if you slack off even one bit.
Please do more in your community than just Democratic politics. Become active in Rotary, the local Chamber of Commerce, or your church, mosque or synagogue. Volunteer and begin to carry the load in these organizations. Become indispensable to them. And when the conversations turn to politics, let them know that you are a Democrat. Demonstrate by your service that the Democratic Party cares. Through our service we can win back what we have lost and make this great county better.
Finally, I want to thank each one you who has contributed their time, talent and treasure. This campaign was a campaign of service to the people of District 22 and each of you deserve all of the credit. I would not have been the candidate I was without your support.
Fight on!
Richard Morrison
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Comments
Rather a surprise.
In light of the challenges detailed in his e-mail, as well as the recently established blogs designed to counter his candidacy ( http://richardmorrison.blogspot.com/ and http://bryanin22.blogspot.com/ ) it seems to me that Richard did the noble thing by choosing to forgo a run now.
FWIW, naming his two presumptive challengers is pretty interesting.
Posted by: PDiddie at April 25, 2005 05:06 PM
I hate to lose such a good Democratic candidate, but Richard is a class act to encourage support of the other two Democrats. Let's never forget that Morrison got the ball rolling with his campaign against Delay when Delay seemed invincible. I hope to continue to see Richard involved in Democratic politics and some day have him run again.
Posted by: Susan Gates at April 25, 2005 05:11 PM