A politician who skedaddles from the arena, in order to “spend more time with my family,” typically is appeasing a seething spouse or running one step ahead of the posse.
Sometimes, though, they actually mean it.
Such is the case with Laura Capps, who said this week that she won’t seek the 24th Congressional District seat to be left open by the 2016 retirement of her mother, Representative Lois Capps. Bottom line: She and her husband aim to give their 4-year old, Oscar, an idyllic Santa Barbara upbringing, without Mom grinding out a weekly 4,738-mile trek to and from Our Nation’s Capitol.
