Illinois - December 19th, 2005 Texas - January 2nd, 2006 West Virginia - January 28th, 2006 Kentucky - 4PM on January 31st, 2006 Ohio - February 16th, 2006 Indiana - Noon on February 17th, 2006 North Carolina - Noon on February 28th, 2006 Mississippi - March 1st, 2006 Nebraska - March 1st, 2006 Oregon - March 7th, 2006 Pennsylvania - March 7th, 2006 California - March 10th, 2006 Maine - March 15th, 2006 Idaho - March 17th, 2006 Iowa - March 17th, 2006 Utah - March 17th, 2006 Montana - March 23rd, 2006 Missouri - March 28th, 2006 New Mexico - March 29th, 2006 South Carolina - Noon on March 30th, 2006 South Dakota - April 4th, 2006 Arkansas - Noon on April 4th, 2006 Tennessee - Noon on April 6th, 2006 Alabama - April 7th, 2006 New Jersey - April 10th, 2006 Virginia - 5pm on April 14th, 2006 North Dakota - April 17th, 2006 Georgia - April 28th, 2006 Florida - May 12th, 2006 Nevada - May 12th, 2006 Connecticut - May 16th, 2006 Michigan - 4pm on May 16th, 2006 Colorado - May 25th, 2006 Alaska - June 1st, 2006 Wyoming - June 2nd, 2006 Massachusetts - June 6th, 2006 Oklahoma - June 7th, 2006 Kansas - June 12th, 2006 Arizona - June 14th, 2006 New Hampshire - June 16th, 2006 Rhode Island - June 28th, 2006 Maryland - July 3rd, 2006 Wisconsin - July 11th, 2006 New York - July 13th, 2006 Vermont - July 17th, 2006 Minnesota - July 18th, 2006 Hawaii - July 25th, 2006 Delaware - Noon on July 28th, 2006 Washington - July 28th, 2006 Louisiana - August 11th, 2006
And the 9 oldest Republicans (who aren't retiring yet) [Ages are their age in November 2006]
Ralph Hall (TX-4, 83 years old) Ralph Regula (OH-16, 81 years old) Roscoe Bartlett (MD-6, 80 years old) Sam Johnson (TX-3, 76 years old) Bill Young (FL-10, 75 years old) Don Young (AK-AL, 73 years old) Vernon Ehlers (MI-3, 72 years old) Joe Knollenberg (MI-9, 72 years old) Jerry Lewis (CA-41, 72 years old)
I have my suspicions that Hostettler might retire. Right now, he has 61K raised and 27K on hand. I also suspect Bill Young might retire (despite not having real opposition willing to face him).
There's no real lowbar for "If the guy has raised under this number, he might retire". Kolbe raised 287K though September (which was slightly more than Franks, Shadegg, and Flake, all of whom are in redder districts)
Oxley raised 442K. So for all we know, he might be the animal acting weirdly before the earthquake. For all we know, he might be linked to Abramoff.
As for Abramoff..
I was thinking of putting a list here of all the current Republicans who got campaign contributions from him. But I did the list, and 41 Republicans were included, including a ton os $250 donations in 1996. Not bad for just $74593 in "over the table" contributions.
But here's the top five version of that list.
5T. Chip Pickering and John Doolittle - $4K
But the catch is that Saxton got $2K from Abramoff.
Lobiondo gave back a $1K donation from 2001 in August 2005, and then recieved a $1K donation from Abramoff in August 2005.
Source
Mike Ferguson refused to return the money.
I don't recall any random retirements in Texas.
Both Texas and Illinois hold their primaries around March, and I'm thankful California isn't doing that.
-Daily Virginia Political News
The Abramoff contributions to Cantor went as follows
3/19/03 (4K) 7/29/02 (1K) 5/8/01 (1K) 5/7/00 (1K)
Daily Virginia Political News
Also check out Barry Welsh's 50 State list, of all known Dem candidates for congressional seats, compiled from DCCC, ActBlue, and Politics1 lists. In Michigan, there's no known opponent yet for Ehlers - didn't realize how old he is, retirement could really be a possibility there.
