Rep. Delahunt says he won't run for re-election

WASHINGTON (AP) - Massachusetts Rep. William Delahunt has decided not to run for re-election.

By: By ANDREW MIGA Associated Press Writer | WNCT
Published: March 05, 2010

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WASHINGTON (AP) - Massachusetts Rep. William Delahunt has decided not to run for re-election.
The seven-term Democrat said Thursday night that his decision was not motivated by political concerns.
He says in a statement that "he's been "wrestling with this decision for a while."
Delahunt had been considering leaving Congress for years but was talked out of it by the late Sen. Edward Kennedy, who urged him to help pass President Barack Obama's first-term agenda.
Delahunt has come under fire recently for his handling of a 1986 shooting by Amy Bishop, a University of Alabama professor accused of killing three colleagues this year. Delahunt was the local district attorney at the time of the 1986 shooting and he accepted the findings of police that Bishop's shooting of her brother was accidental.

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