Cubin won’t run for reelection

GOP Rep. Barbara Cubin announced that she would not seek reelection next year to an eighth term representing Wyoming.

She has missed almost half of her votes in Congress this year, spending much of her time in Wyoming caring for her husband, who has been ill for years with an unspecified immune disorder. She has also missed votes this year after her brother’s death and after she broke a foot.

“In contemplating 2008, my overwhelming consideration has been the need of my family for me to come home,” Cubin told about 60 members of the Wyoming Republican Party State Central Committee. “I look forward to coming home to be a friend, a wife, a mother and especially a grandmother.”