The Nation - News from June 21, 1989

Former House Speaker Jim Wright (D-Tex.), who has said that he would resign from Congress later this month in hopes of ending the “mindless cannibalism” over ethics, suggested that he might try to come back in a special election. In a statement, Wright said he would consider running for his seat in the special election if there were “an absolutely genuine draft of a bipartisan nature” but added: “I am not sure that I should consider it even then.” Members of the Ethics Committee who in April charged Wright with violations of House rules said that the case against him would still be pending if he were to return to Congress. Wright’s statement came in response to accounts of a meeting Saturday in Ft. Worth during which about 25 supporters urged Wright to not stand in the way of a draft movement to return him to Congress.