HUFFINGTON POST: Sen. Saxby Chambliss (R-Ga.) is announcing Friday that he will not run for re-election in 2014, reports the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
Two Republican Georgia House members, Paul Broun and Tom Price, have been thinking of primary challenges to the Georgia senator, who has been in the Senate since 2003.
Chambliss criticized anti-tax activist Grover Norquist in November, saying he cared about his country more than him. “Norquist has no plan to pay this debt down. His plan says you continue to add to the debt, and I just have a fundamental disagreement about that and I’m willing to do the right thing and let the political consequences take care of themselves,” he said at the time… (more)
