AP sources: Oklahoma’s lone congressional Democrat, Rep. Dan Boren, won’t seek re-election [View All]

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Source: Associated Press

TULSA, Okla. — Rep. Dan Boren, the lone Democrat in Oklahoma’s congressional delegation and the scion of one of the state’s most powerful men, will not seek re-election to a fourth term next year, three Democrats close to the congressman said Tuesday.

Boren, a conservative Democrat who comfortably won re-election last year despite big gains by Republicans nationwide, scheduled a news conference for later Tuesday in Muskogee to discuss his future plans. The Democrats who told The Associated Press of his plans did so on the condition of anonymity because they weren’t authorized to discuss them before the news conference.

Cole Perryman, a spokesman for Boren, did not immediately return a phone call seeking comment.

Voters in Boren’s eastern Oklahoma district, which stretches from the foothills of the Ozark Mountains in northeastern Oklahoma to the Red River in the south, have consistently supported the conservative Democrat. His father, David Boren, is president of the University of Oklahoma and previously served as the state’s governor and as a senator.

Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/ap-sources-oklahomas-lone-congressional-democrat-rep-dan-boren-wont-seek-re-election/2011/06/07/AG2ghELH_story.html

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Right when a certain New York Democrat is on the edge of losing his seat?