WataugaWatch: EARTHQUAKE: Paul Ryan Won't Run Again

Wednesday, April 11, 2018

EARTHQUAKE: Paul Ryan Won't Run Again

I didn't think he'd bow out, but it's all over Twitter that Paul Ryan has told his closest associates that he won't run for reelection.

Ryan's expected to make a formal announcement to House Republicans later today.

Maybe it was the #ToxicTrumpEffect or maybe it was the prospect of losing reelection to the #IronStache. Either way, this opens the door wide for either steelworker Randy Bryce or schoolteacher Cathy Myers. A Democrat can win this congressional district.

No sudden Republican retirement from Congress will hit the GOP harder than this one.

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J.W. Williamson was the founding editor in 1972 of the Appalachian Journal: A Regional Studies Review, which he edited until July of 2000. He has taught college classes in Appalachian history, cultural politics, and literature, and he has lectured widely on the pop-culture history of "Appalachia" in the American consciousness. His books include Interviewing Appalachia, Southern Mountaineers in Silent Films, and Hillbillyland: What the Mountains Did to the Movies and What the Movies Did to the Mountains. He has won the Thomas Wolfe Award given by the Western North Carolina Historical Society, the Laurel Leaves Award given by the Appalachian Consortium, a special Weatherford Award given by Berea College, and the Cratis Williams-James Brown Award given by the Appalachian Studies Association.
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