Says he didn't want to go through tough reelection campaign
(NEWSER) - Barney Frank has decided not to run for reelection next year, he announced today at a typically feisty press conference in Newton, Mass. “It would have been a rough campaign,” he said, according to the Boston Globe . “I don’t like raising money.” Frank has $760,000 in his campaign coffers, but said he’d need a few million more to compete in his newly redrawn district, which lost the working-class city of New Bedford and gained several conservative towns. More»
