{"id":7464,"date":"2009-10-13T16:49:14","date_gmt":"2009-10-13T23:49:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=7464"},"modified":"2009-10-14T10:53:15","modified_gmt":"2009-10-14T17:53:15","slug":"report-wexler-to-resign-from-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=7464","title":{"rendered":"Wexler to Resign from Congress"},"content":{"rendered":"

Florida’s Sun-Sentinel<\/i> is reporting<\/a> that Rep. Robert Wexler (D-FL) will announce tomorrow that he’s resigning from Congress:<\/p>\n

Wexler plans to meet with reporters Wednesday morning in Boca Raton to detail his next move. A Democratic source with knowledge of Wexler’s plans said the seven-term congressman is likely to take a public policy job that deals with the Middle East. The job does not involve working for the Obama administration and does not involve lobbying.<\/div>\n

It’s not clear what job he’ll be taking, though Spencer Ackerman at The Washington Independent<\/i><\/a> speculates it could be U.S. Ambassador to Israel or head of USAID (though both of those, it seems, would be “working for the Obama administration”, counter to Sun-Sentinel’s report).<\/p>\n

Losing Wexler will be a loss to progressive Democrats in the House given his historic tenacity on any number of issues, from taking on the nonsense of the Clinton Impeachment, to fighting for<\/em> the responsible Bush Impeachment, to fighting for electoral integrity in the state of Florida. That’ll be one less bulldog with a “D” by his name, unfortunately, in a House that could use a lot<\/i> more of ’em.<\/p>\n

UPDATE:<\/strong><\/em> Miami Herald’s<\/em> coverage is now here<\/a> and similarly points to the issues we mentioned above. They offer no additional details, however, on either Wexler’s future plans or the specific reason for his surprise resignation.<\/p>\n

LATER UPDATE:<\/em><\/strong> Miami Herald updates their report (same link as the above), to report: “In a conference call Tuesday night with Democratic leaders, Wexler said he will become director of the Washington-based Center for Middle East Peace and Economic Cooperation.”<\/p>\n

UPDATE 10\/14\/09:<\/b><\/i> Wexler’s official statement is now here<\/a>. Though questions are still percolating as to the real reasons behind this move. TPM offers a round-up of a few opinions<\/a> of note, the general consensus so far being his interest in helping to move Obama’s Mideast peace effort forward. But the question of why he couldn’t have done so from his “dream-job” (as he described it back in January) in Congress still remains a bit of a mystery at this hour.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Florida’s Sun-Sentinel is reporting that Rep. Robert Wexler (D-FL) will announce tomorrow that he’s resigning from Congress: Wexler plans to meet with reporters Wednesday morning in Boca Raton to detail his next move. A Democratic source with knowledge of Wexler’s plans said the seven-term congressman is likely to take a public policy job that deals […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[334],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-7464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robert-wexler","bb-type-bradblog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7464\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7464"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=7464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}