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« on: December 17, 2016, 02:43:12 AM » |
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The accepted explanation was that Coats ran in 2010 because his old lobbying connections from his time in the Senate in the '90s had dried up and he wanted/needed more avenues of access. And then he realized Congress had become an unworkable hellhole compared to the last time he was there (which was already a fairly adversarial period) and decided he'd had enough and wanted out.
Allegedly this is also why Mike Johanns didn't run for a second term - he couldn't stand how toxic the work environment was.
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