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I used to vote for him but this saves me from having to vote Democrat. I have to say the woman Kirsten Sinema who want's that seat isn't bad looking.
Anyway that walking reason to have term limits won't run.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news...jeff-flake-arizona-senate-retiring/795708001/

Flake has sparred publicly with Trump since Trump emerged as a presidential contender in 2015. He refused to endorse or vote for Trump, and during the campaign was a frequent critic of Trump's tone and tenor and key policy proposals, such as a border wall.
Flake further antagonized Trump and the president's supporters this summer by publishing a book, Conscience of a Conservative: A Rejection of Destructive Politics and a Return to Principle, that took the Republican Party to task for embracing protectionism, nationalism and other tenets of "Trumpism" at the expense of traditional Goldwater-Reagan GOP values.
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Sen. Jeff Flake, R-Ariz., announces Oct. 24, 2017, on the Senate floor in Washington that he will not run for re-election in 2018. (Photo: Senate TV via AP)

Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn., an ally of Flake's who also has been publicly fighting with Trump, announced Sept. 26 that he would not seek a third Senate term.
Something of a political maverick, Flake routinely angered fellow Republicans by highlighting their spending of taxpayer money on parochial priorities.
While in the House, Flake’s office ridiculed questionable pork projects with a series of “Egregious Earmark of the Week” news releases that usually included corny jokes and bad puns.
In 2006, Flake was profiled by CBS’ 60 Minutes in a flattering segment that compared him to the principled Jimmy Stewart character in the classic 1939 movie Mr. Smith Goes to Washington. His reform efforts are credited with helping lead to an earmark moratorium on Capitol Hill.
"If I'm remembered as the guy who killed earmarks, that's a great thing," Flake told The Republic in 2012.
Flake took up other fights during his years on Capitol Hill.
Flake was a free-trader who believed that the economic embargo against Cuba, which dated to the Kennedy administration and was part of the U.S. effort to stop dictator Fidel Castro’s brand of communism from spreading to other countries in the region, had long ago outlived its usefulness. Flake worked for years to ease travel restrictions to Cuba, usually siding with Democrats on the issue, and early in the 2000s, drawing the ire of President George W. Bush’s administration and House GOP leaders.
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He found an ally on the Cuba issue in President Obama.
He also worked with Democrats on legislation aimed at strengthening protections for civil liberties.
“It’s been an honor to know and serve with Jeff. He is a man of integrity and a statesman who is true to his convictions.”
Rep. Kyrsten Sinema, D-Ariz.
In 2006, Flake helped stop powerful Rep. Tom DeLay, R-Texas, who was facing criminal prosecution at the time, from ever returning to his job as House majority leader.
In its November 2008 issue, Esquire magazine honored Flake as one of the 10 best elected officials in Washington.
"A true conservative, Flake is as rare as the dodo," the magazine said. "Republicans should learn from him, and liberals and libertarians will find in him a strong privacy-rights ally."
By withdrawing from his re-election race, Flake is breaking from Arizona's tradition of long-serving U.S. senators, including Democrat Carl Hayden and Republicans Barry Goldwater and McCain.
Only one other senator from Arizona served just a single six-year term: Republican Ralph Cameron, who was elected in 1920 and ousted by Hayden in the 1926 election.

 
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