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Last Updated on Wednesday, 29 September 2010 03:14 Written by rslcpol Wednesday, 17 February 2010 01:28
From Projo.com:
Lt. Gov. Elizabeth Roberts has decided to run for reelection, rather than take a shot at winning the 1st District Congressional seat held for the last 15 years by Patrick J. Kennedy.
In the wake of Kennedy’s unexpected announcement last week that he was not running for reelection to a ninth term, Roberts, who lives in the state’s 2nd Congressional District, acknowledged that she was seriously thinking about running for Kennedy’s open seat.
But on Tuesday, she issued a statement in which she said she has been “humbled” by the “many Rhode Islanders who have encouraged me to enter the race to succeed Congressman Kennedy,” but feels that “my place, right now, is here in Rhode Island.”
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