11-Term Cultist Republican Rep Won’t Seek Reelection

The Texas Tribune reports:

U.S. Rep. Michael Burgess, a Dallas-area Republican who has held his post for two decades, will not seek re-election next year, he announced Monday.

“It has been the honor of my life to have gone from a small-town doctor delivering babies, with no prior political experience, to elected to represent my friends and neighbors in the United States Congress,” the Lewisville Republican said in a statement Monday afternoon.

Burgess, 72, first won the seat in 2002 after House Majority Leader Dick Armey, who had held it since the mid-1980s, retired — defeating Armey’s son for the seat. Burgess has since held the comfortably Republican seat in the Dallas-Fort Worth suburbs without facing serious competition.

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Burgess has a 0% rating from the Human Rights Campaign on LGBTQ issues and voted against certifying Biden’s win in the 2020 election. A former gynecologist, his previous appearances on JMG mainly came due to his attempts to repeal Obamacare and ban abortion rights.

U.S. Rep. Michael Burgess, a Dallas-area Republican who has held his post for two decades, will not seek re-election next year, he announced Monday. https://t.co/0Bz6rUMP2X

— Texas Tribune (@TexasTribune) November 13, 2023