Democratic Rep. Neal Goodman is the fourth legislative retirement this month
State Rep. Neal P. Goodman, a nine-term Democrat from Schuylkill County’s coal country, is the latest lawmaker to announce they won’t be seeking re-election in 2020.
Speaking exclusively to his hometown Pottsville Republican-Herald on Monday, Goodman, 62, said the decision to step away from the House didn’t come easily.
“Now is the time to announce because, shortly after Thanksgiving, people start thinking about nominating petitions and things like that,” he said. “So I think this is the best time to make an announcement like this,” Goodman told the newspaper.
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Goodman [is] the fourth lawmaker to announce this month that he will not be seeking re-election in 2020. So far, Reps. Steve Barrar, R-Delaware; Cris Dush, R-Jefferson, and Steve McCarter, D-Montgomery, have also announced plans to retire.
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