On Retiring U.S. Rep Terry Everett
CQPolitics has an interesting piece on Rep. Terry Everett, saying that in Congress he paid a price for not playing nice.
Everett was 55 and a self-made millionaire when he won his first election to the House as a conservative from a district whose economy is reliant on agriculture and its military bases. But his attempts to move up in Congress were thwarted for years by his refusal to raise large amounts of cash for the Republican Party at election time.
GOP leaders passed him over for chairman of the Veterans’ Affairs Committee in 2005, in favor of a more junior lawmaker, Steve Buyer of Indiana. Two years earlier, Everett lost a bid for Agriculture Committee chairman to Robert W. Goodlatte of Virginia.
Everett remained peeved that the National Republican Congressional Committee, the House GOP’s political arm, had backed another candidate in his first run for Congress in 1992. But in the run-up to the 2006 elections, Everett reconciled with the NRCC and contributed $71,000 to its coffers.
The Dothan Eagle has a nice article on him and his decision to retire.
“It’s been a great ride,” Everett said Wednesday during a phone interview with the Dothan Eagle. “But there comes a time, especially when you get older, you need to lean back and smell the roses.”
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Looks like its good riddance to an innefective congressman. Let’s get someone in there that can do some things for the district and not just be a backbencher.
Comment by Anonymous — September 27, 2007 @ 11:38 am
Way to be brave and put out your personal ideas, if you are going to take shots at Congressman Everett why not buck up and put your name on it?
Comment by William Wyatt Wallace — September 27, 2007 @ 4:54 pm
I removed a comment that crossed a line for tastefulness in my book. Honest disagreements are part of any political discussion, but personal attacks are not necessary, especially of a tasteless nature.
Comment by Danny — September 28, 2007 @ 12:31 pm
It’s all about the money!!!!
Everett was not selected as Chairman of the Veterans’ Affairs Committee in 2005, because the Montgomery VA, CAVHCS, had more EEO, and leagal actions taken against the facility than any other VA facility in the country. I contributed. Someone in Washington took notice.
The Agriculture Committee was lost due to his inability to introduce a logical, passable bill to help the farmers.
I just wished he would have introduced a bill for the tunnel he wanted to construct from Mexico to Canada, his answer to solve the illegal alien problem, but instead he hired them to work on his farm and the VA.
What do you call a self made millionaire? “Godfather.”
Let the record speak for itself.
Comment by John Morykwas — October 3, 2007 @ 8:32 pm