Kennedy won't run for re-election in RI

WASHINGTON – Rep. Patrick Kennedy has decided not to seek re-election to Congress, saying his life is "taking a new direction." Kennedy taped a message to be aired on television in Rhode Island on Sunday night. The Associated Press viewed the message ahead of the announcement.

The decision by the eight-term congressman comes less than a month after a stunning Republican upset in the race for the Massachusetts Senate seat his late father, Edward Kennedy, held for almost half a century. Patrick Kennedy has been in and out of treatment for substance abuse since crashing his car outside the U.S Capitol in 2006. Still, he has been comfortably re-elected twice since then, after making mental health care his signature issue.

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Wow...yet another politician calling it quits. I don't know how many there are now total that are quitting...but it seems as if they are running for the hills.

And it's not just Dems either...quite a few GOPers walking away as well. This coming election cycle could be crazy.