Do you think Chuck Grassley should seek re-election in 2016?
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Republican U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley says the decision by his colleague, Democrat Sen. Tom Harkin, to retire in 2014 hasn’t influenced his thinking about seeking a seventh term in 2016.
Although he didn’t declare his candidacy, Grassley says in a C-SPAN “Newsmakers” interview that will air at 9 a.m. Sunday that he plans to do everything necessary to get re-elected.
“So I’ll do the same things — go to all 99 counties as I have for 32 years, hold town meetings and have the resources to run,” he says, “and I’ll let you know in 2015.”
“My main concern and the main basis of any hope for re-election in the future, as it has been in the past, is to do the very best job you can as a U.S. senator, and if people recognize that they will elect you or re-elect you,” Grassley says.
Do you think Grassley should seek re-election? If he does, will he get your vote?
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If Grassley were to run for another term, he would be 90 by the end of that term. I know he is in good health due to a healthy lifestyle. Nonetheless, there is a much heightened risk of impaired skills, including the risk of dimensia as one approaches 90. It’s time to hang it up.
Clean the slate, get fresh blood! He should have retired with his Oldsmobile! If that car was to tired to go on, Chuck shouldn’t be long behind!
Grassley needs to retire, because unlike Senator Harkin who helped the disabled as a Senator, Grassley has did nothing outstanding or worthwhile during his career as Senator. It is time for Grassley to push away from the public trough too
No, he should hang up his pork tongs. Never an outstanding Senator, Grassley had a few periods early in his career when he accomplished a few good things for the nation and for Iowa; but these are in the distant past. His participation in the ACA discussion was shameful and, worse, seemingly shameless on his part. He is now on a fast track to inherit Bob Dole’s mantle of Grumpiest Old Senator.
We need a senator who is not afraid of dealing with ideas and who has the intellectual bandwidth to be able to discriminate good ideas from bad ones instead of slavishly following the prime directives of his party.
I don’t even care if Grassley’s replacement is a Republican as long as he isn’t a member of that party’s lunatic fringe (the length of said fringe being very long these days).
While I have no problem with a competent old man serving as our Senator, some of Senator Grassley’s recent decisions indicate to me that he has become easily influenced by the extremists from within his own party. To me, that means that he has already given over many of the roles of his job to staffers who are ‘gung-ho’ about a party mantra, and less concerned about serving the people of this state.
So in my opinion, it was time for new leadership serving in that position long ago. Why he did not retire many years ago is hard for me to understand. What is clear is that if he chooses to retire at the same time that Tom Harkin does, it will leave Iowa with two Senators without much seniority and experience. This is a terrible mistake that Chuck Grassley could have helped us avoid by not having run in 2010 or even earlier.
No its time to hang it up. If the president has term limits congress should too. politics is not supposed to be a career.