Texas Republican Congressman Pat Fallon will not seek reelection for a third term in the House and will instead run for his old seat in the Texas state Senate next year, the Texas Tribune reports.
Yeah, you read that right. A federal representative has decided to self-demote back to the state legislature he served in prior to Congress. One that’s quite possibly even more dysfunctional than the chamber in which he currently serves, but Fallon seems actually pretty excited to head back home and swim in a smaller pond. “At the end of the day, the decision came down to, If we lose Texas, we lose the nation,” Fallon told the Tribune. “It’s just terribly important to ensure that Texas has written a great success story and I want to keep moving that forward.” Fallon added that his two years in the state Senate prior to the US House were “the best two years I ever spent” in politics.