DC buro chief @TexasTribune. Ex-Roll Call, CNNer, NBCer, soap opera intern. I 
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This is our first pass at the Bill Flores retirement, via our very swift @bobbycblanchard. And I'm making context adds as quick as I can.https://www.texastribune.org/2019/09/04/texas-republican-congressman-bill-flores-not-running-re-election/ …
Two key things for now: The 17th District ain't likely to be competitive (but I'll add my post 2016 boiler plate caveat of "weirder things have happened in American politics") and I'm getting unsolicited texts from Rs saying this wasn't at all expected.https://www.texastribune.org/2019/09/04/texas-republican-congressman-bill-flores-not-running-re-election/ …
Flores is the last remaining Texan in the class of 2010. Quico Canseco and Blake Farenthold were the other freshmen that year.https://www.texastribune.org/2019/09/04/texas-republican-congressman-bill-flores-not-running-re-election/ …
Unanticipated sentiment among Rs aside, @adampwillis just reminded me we had a Flores retirement prewrite in the works before recess...so we at least had an inkling. Viva Texas Tribune fellows.
I asked Flores last year if he anticipated a wave of Texas retirements. He pushed back a bit: https://www.texastribune.org/2018/11/28/texas-delegation-congressretirements-2020/ …pic.twitter.com/UfvV2Hl7rj
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