As career politician Russ Feingold admitted in an interview this week with WORT, his family has had enough of his habit of running for political office:
I was approached about running for office several times after 2010. The feedback I got first was from my family. As soon as we lost, they said ‘dad, can we not do this anymore?’ And I said, well, ‘I can’t promise you I’ll never do it…’
Senator Feingold himself noted in the interview that by seeking political office for 30 years, he has been a career politician for most of his children’s lives:
…but yes, I’ve been running for office, or been in political office for most of their lives and I said look, we’ll certainly take a break.
What Senator Feingold failed to mention is that by seeking political office for 30 years, he’s been a career politician for most of his own life.
FEINGOLD FLASHBACK:
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Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 7/31/15: "…18 years is a long time. If Senator Feingold’s career in the Senate were a person, it could smoke cigarettes, go to war, and actually vote for Senator Feingold."
- The Washington Post, 9/2/15: "…18 years (!) in the U.S. Senate and 10 years in the Wisconsin Senate before that. That’s 64 percent of his adult life spent in office."
As Wisconsinites learned this week, even when Senator Feingold isn’t running for office, he’s still running for office. Following his 2010 defeat, Senator Feingold concocted Progressives United PAC as a shadow campaign and national fundraising Rolodex for his 2016 Senate bid.
Senator Feingold, we agree with your own family and the people of Wisconsin.
Can you not do this anymore?