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Gowdy Just Answered Those Wanting Him To Become Majority Leader With 10 Definitive Words
Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., is a man on a mission, and won’t be distracted by talk of him serving as the House GOP’s Majority Leader.
“I am staying on the Benghazi committee, period, exclamation point,” Gowdy said Tuesday before a House vote.
Current Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., will be seeking to replace departing House Speaker John Boehner.
Gowdy’s name was bandied about Tuesday after colleagues talked up his credentials.
“He is the kind of smart fighter our country needs and the American people deserve,” Rep. Mia Love, R-Utah, said Tuesday. “With impressive communication skills, genuine compassion and the tenacity of a prosecutor, he will unite the party and the people around a truly American agenda.”
However, Gowdy made it clear later Tuesday that he was not interested.
“I’ve never run for any leadership position, and I’m not going to start now,” Gowdy said. “Don’t know how I can be any more definitive.”
Gowdy “made it clear that he is OUT of any consideration for any leadership position,” Rep. Mick Mulvaney, R-S.C., tweeted Tuesday night. Mulvaney had supported Gowdy for the post.
Mulvaney emphasized the importance of the Benghazi panel to Gowdy.
“l had to beg Trey to run for re-election in 2014. I absolutely think he’ll run again in 2016 for one reason and one reason only…he’s staying until the Benghazi Commission is finished. That’s it. He may leave after, but he’s certainly not leaving before then,” Mulvaney said.
Gowdy’s office, responding to a spate of stories suggesting Gowdy would not seek re-election in 2016, said the South Carolina lawmaker does not plan to resign.
Gowdy is chairman of the select House committee investigating the 2012 Benghazi attacks. The committee’s work has brought him in conflict with Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton, who is scheduled to testify before the panel in October.
h/t: TheBlaze
Source: http://www.westernjournalism.com/gowdy-just-answered-those-wanting-him-to-become-majority-leader-with-10-definitive-words/
