Allen says he won't run for Gov. in '09

[Va Lefty]

Source: Roanoke Times

"We will always fondly recall our time in the Governor's Mansion as an unparalleled honor and a period of historic initiatives and transformational accomplishments for Virginians. Yet, as we look forward, we are excited about other significant ways we can serve and contribute outside of elected office. Therefore, I will not be a candidate for Governor in 2009," he wrote.

Read more: http://www.roanoke.com/news/breaking/wb/146313

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Is it possible we won't have "Macaca" to kick around anymore?!

[Deep13]

1. "...other significant ways we can serve and contribute outside of elected office."

Translation: "I'll be paid more as a lobbyist."

[TheDebbieDee]

2. That ba$tard wasn't going to win anyway, and he knew it......

:cry:

[Virginia Dare]

3. How far the mighty have fallen..

just a couple of years ago people were pronouncing him the next POTUS. Turns out he was just a POS.

[Eurobabe]

5. A real piece of Macaca

Good news for Virginia. A Macaca in Richmond might have prevented us from buying a house in C'ville. :hi:

[rateyes]

4. That's the best thing he's

ever done for Virginia.

[calimary]

6. I'm guessing he's expecting an Obama victory in November.

The LAST thing he's gonna want is to step back into the spotlight with that "macaca" tape following him - like a long trail of toilet paper that he can't get off his shoe.

Our friend mr. allen may have just detected climate change. :party:

[Virginia Dare]

8. The Virginia repub party is destroying itself at a rapid rate..

they are now paying the price for letting the right-wing fundies take control here.

[calimary]

15. From your mouth... as the saying goes...

Disarray for the bad guys is good for all the rest of us!

I find myself hoping that this disaffection might ultimately compel the Bible-thumpers to break away and form their own party. And that would splinter the GOP for decades!

[LibDemAlways]

7. He'd never be able to shake his racist past and he knows it.

Too bad it took people so many years of his collecting a taxpayer-financed paycheck before they realized they'd been had.

[amb123]

9. Good-Bye George.

"And don't think it hasn't been a little slice of heaven, because it hasn't!"

- Bugs Bunny

:party:

[BonnieJW]

10. But he was already governor of Virginia.

Don't you mean he was going to run for Warner's open senate seat? Can he run for governor again???

[cosmicdot]

13. he could run for governor again

governors in Virginia can not succeed themselves, but they can sit out a term, and seek the office again

from wiki ~

... Virginia does not allow an incumbent Governor to succeed himself, so the incumbent Governor is barred from running in the election (although a former governor may run again in subsequent gubernatorial elections). As of 2007, Virginia is the only state in the U.S. in which governors cannot serve consecutive terms. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Governor_of_Virginia


I'm still puzzling over what "...historic initiatives and transformational accomplishments for Virginians" Allen's ego is referencing.



"... Allen wrote that he and his wife, Susan, had struggled with and prayed..."
sure they did

[va4wilderness]

11. Thankfully....

Politicians like him and Ollie North can go to the dustheap. Hopefully bigot Marshall will lose too in his senate bid. (And Jim "Kill"more too).

[demnan]

12. That's because the Virginia GOP wouldn't have it

n/t

[LostinVA]

14. The ass knew he couldn't win -- too much of VA is now either blue or purple

And, the NOVA Republicans know that electing Allen again would make VA look like some backwards Jim Crow state. They don't want that, and they have clout.

[momster]

16. So They're Running Gilmore...

Gilmore? Who left the state in tatters...and deep in debt? Gilmore whose tendency to drivel on is legendary? This is who the Republicans have decided to run against Tim Kaine? Okay, that party is really out to lunch, nuttier than squirrel poop, and ready to waltz with the pretty, pretty ponies.

[David in Canada]

17. Actually...

Gilmore is running for the U.S. Senate this year against former Governor Mark Warner (D). Warner is likely to win in a landslide.

Also, Kaine cannot run for re-election in 2009 due to Virginia's unique one consecutive term rule, whereby governors must sit out a term before running again. Virginia has been alone with this rule since 1995, when Kentucky began allowing second consecutive terms.

[momster]

19. Oops, you're right

I guess I heard 'Gilmore is running' and my higher mental processes blanked out with a vengenance. You may notice that I can't stand that guy...I hide it well, don't I?

[David in Canada]

22. Good reason! :)

You have a good reason not to like them. Both Mssrs. Allen and Gilmore are jerks, albeit Allen is somewhat intelligent whereas Gilmore is an absolute imbecile.

[Virginia Dare]

18. So far, Bill Bolling and McDonny the AG have expressed interest...n/t

[colonel odis]

20. i'm not running either, george. and if i did, we'd get about the same # of votes.

[lanlady]

21. Why the hell

is Allen using the royal "we?" Who made him king?

This is bad news. "We" the people were looking forward to watching this buffoon get his ass handed to him a second time.