GOP congressman says 'socialists' made him break his promise to retire after 6 terms

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By Josh Israel -January 19, 2021 4:01 PM

Rep. Andy Harris initially campaigned on term limits.

Rep. Andy Harris plans to break a promise he made 11 years ago not to run for more than six terms in Congress. Harris, a Maryland Republican, said over the weekend that socialism is to blame for his decision.

"The situation is very different from then, no one would have anticipated that we have the pushback from liberals and socialists that we have," he told a Baltimore radio station on Sunday. "I view this as when I was in the military, you sign up for a certain amount of years, but at the end of that you say, 'Look, if the job's not done, I'm re-upping.' So at this point in time, I'm re-upping. The bottom line is this fight is not over. We have very serious threats."

When Harris ran in 2010, promising to serve no longer than six two-year terms in the House, there were no caveats about re-upping. He promised to introduce a constitutional amendment imposing term limits on members of Congress.

"Harris is also pledging to impose a 12-year limit on himself as a member of the House," the Baltimore Sun's Paul West wrote in March 2010. "History shows that politicians are often prone to break that promise and rarely get punished by voters when they do."

Published with permission of The American Independent Foundation.

https://americanindependent.com/gop-congressman-maryland-andy-harris-term-limits-2022-election/

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And in October, he voted "present" rather than join 371 colleagues from both parties in condemning and rejecting dangerous QAnon conspiracy theories.

Harris could find himself facing an uphill battle when he runs again in 2022. Democrats hold supermajorities in both the Maryland state House of Delegates and the Maryland state Senate and may try to eliminate or redraw his seat when they carry out redistricting based on the results of the 2020 census.

This "guy" from my district gets benefits from taxpayers, like health care and he will even get a retirement check from taxpayers another benefit, that is socialistic...............what a disgrace resign........you put party over country.......a typical republican, yet again and lying typical republican ...........one of your constituents Harris worked on the plane that crashed in the PA countryside on 9/11.............guess who.............think real hard.........