Republican Rep. Andrew Murr, who led impeachment of Ken Paxton, won't seek reelection

Texas Rep. Andrew Murr, who led the impeachment of Attorney General Ken Paxton earlier this year, announced Monday that he would not seek reelection.

Murr, a Republican from Junction in his fifth term, said a decade in Austin has kept him away too long from professional and family obligations at home, including four children ranging from 15 months to 15 years old.

“I’ve missed touchdowns, base hits, school field trips and summer field strips and summer fishing trips. I’ve missed birthdays, first steps and first words,” Murr said in a retirement letter to constituents. “I’ve put ranch work on hold, often to its own detriment, and now — quite literally — cows are calling me home.”

Murr, 46, also faced the prospect of a difficult reelection. After Paxton was acquitted at the conclusion of his impeachment trial in September, he vowed revenge on the House Republicans who had voted overwhelmingly to indict him in May.

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