{"id":1188938,"date":"2022-01-04T22:49:28","date_gmt":"2022-01-05T03:49:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1188938"},"modified":"2022-01-04T22:49:42","modified_gmt":"2022-01-05T03:49:42","slug":"michigan-rep-becomes-25th-house-democrat-to-retire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/michigan-rep-becomes-25th-house-democrat-to-retire\/","title":{"rendered":"Michigan Rep Becomes 25th House Democrat To Retire"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmichigan-rep-becomes-25th-house-democrat-to-retire%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1188938&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<aside id=\"right1forarticles\">\n<\/aside>\n<div id=\"ob-read-more-selector\">\n<p>Democratic Michigan Rep. Brenda Lawrence will not seek re-election in 2022, she confirmed Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>First elected to Congress in 2015, Lawrence previously served on the Southfield Public Schools Board of Education and Southfield City Council, and was the Detroit suburb\u2019s mayor for fourteen years. She cited a desire to spend more time with her family as the reason for her retirement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI love the 30-year ride I\u2019ve had \u2014 the challenges, the successes, the fighting for democracy. I have so much gratitude for the opportunity I\u2019ve had,\u201d Lawrence <a href=\"https:\/\/www.detroitnews.com\/story\/news\/politics\/2022\/01\/04\/rep-brenda-lawrence-retire-congress-end-term\/9091035002\/?gnt-cfr=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">told<\/a> The Detroit News. \u201cI\u2019ve been married 50 years. I\u2019m healthy. I\u2019m at the top of my game. I have the opportunity to turn the page and to be able to start another chapter in my life of leadership, and I\u2019m looking forward to it. And my family \u2014 who have shared me for 30 years \u2014 are very, very excited about.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">SCOOP: U.S. Rep. Brenda Lawrence to retire from Congress, leaving Detroit-area seat up for grabs <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/SxKFXd4wIw\">https:\/\/t.co\/SxKFXd4wIw<\/a> via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/detroitnews?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@detroitnews<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Melissa Nann Burke (@nannburke) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nannburke\/status\/1478548543853973510?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 5, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Lawrence serves on the House Appropriations and Oversight and Government Reform committees, where she is active on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.congress.gov\/member\/brenda-lawrence\/L000581?q=%7B%22sponsorship%22%3A%22sponsored%22%7D\">issues<\/a> related to education and clean water. <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2019\/11\/26\/swing-state-brenda-lawrence-democrat-impeachment\/\"><strong>(RELATED: Swing State Democrat Brenda Lawrence Flips On Impeachment As Public Grow Wary, Then Flips Back)<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Lawrence\u2019s Detroit-based 14th District was <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/12\/28\/michigan-approves-new-us-house-map-leading-to-an-incumbent-v-incumbent-primary\/\">redrawn<\/a> by the state legislature to include more of the city\u2019s southern <a href=\"https:\/\/projects.fivethirtyeight.com\/redistricting-2022-maps\/michigan\/\">suburbs<\/a>, but the seat is expected to remain in Democratic hands. Michigan was one of seven states to <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/04\/26\/census-congressional-seats-california-new-york-rust-belt-lose-texas-florida-gain\/\">lose<\/a> a congressional seat due to slow population growth following the 2020 census.<\/p>\n<p>Lawrence is the <a href=\"https:\/\/pressgallery.house.gov\/member-data\/casualty-list\">25th<\/a> House Democrat to decline to run for re-election, and the 36th representative overall. She is also the first member of Michigan\u2019s congressional delegation to retire.<\/p>\n<p>A co-chair of the Democratic Women\u2019s Caucus, Lawrence told The Detroit News that she expects to be involved with women\u2019s issues after 2023.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would love to be a an advocate and a consultant and an adviser in a university setting when it comes to women\u2019s policy and women\u2019s rights and leadership,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democratic Michigan Rep. Brenda Lawrence will not seek re-election in 2022, she confirmed Tuesday.First elected to Congress in 2015, Lawrence previously served on the Southfield Public Schools Board &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1188938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1188938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/67"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1188938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1188938\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1188938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1188938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1188938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}