International Courant
Republican Rep. Drew Ferguson stated Thursday he will not search reelection to his Georgia seat in 2024.
“Julie and I sit up for spending extra time with our kids and grandchildren whereas persevering with to work to maintain Georgia the very best state in America to dwell and do enterprise,” Ferguson stated in a press release.
He stated he plans to serve the rest of his fourth time period representing western Georgia’s third District, which expires on the finish of subsequent 12 months.
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The announcement comes two months after Ferguson stated his household had obtained dying threats amid the interior turmoil Republicans confronted in electing a brand new Home speaker following the ouster of Rep. Kevin McCarthy of California.
Rep. Drew Ferguson, R-Georgia, speaks to the press at a diner on Might 4, 2021, in Marietta, Ga. Ferguson stated on Dec. 14, 2023, that he plans to depart workplace after ending his time period subsequent 12 months, saying he seems to be ahead to spending extra time along with his household. (AP Picture/Ron Harris, File)
The threats got here after Ferguson publicly withdrew his help for GOP Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio, a favourite of hard-right conservatives. Ferguson stated he refused to help “a bully” for speaker and that the threats had been “unacceptable, unforgivable, and can by no means be tolerated.”
A former mayor of West Level, Ferguson was elected to Congress in 2016 in a district west of Atlanta that hugs the Georgia-Alabama state line. He served within the Home GOP management because the chief deputy whip from 2018 by way of 2022 and holds a seat on the tax-writing Methods and Means Committee.
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Ferguson’s third District seat leans solidly Republican. He simply fended off a GOP main challenger final 12 months earlier than successful reelection to a fourth-term with 69% of the vote.
State lawmakers in current weeks redrew Georgia’s congressional map underneath a federal choose’s order so as to add a majority-Black district. However the Legislature’s Republican majority produced a map, now pending the courtroom approval, that may preserve the GOP’s 9-5 maintain on the state U.S. Home delegation and defend Republican incumbents.
