Four-term congressman Artur Davis, in the wake of a resounding rejection of his bid to be Alabama’s governor, said Wednesday that his political career was over.
“I have no interest in running for political office again,” Davis said. “The voters spoke in a very decisive way across every sector and in every section of the state. A candidate that fails across-the-board like that obviously needs to find something else productive to do with his life.”
Davis blamed himself for his shocking loss. He took 38 percent of the vote Tuesday to Agriculture Commissioner Ron Sparks’ 62 percent.
Davis began the year with a 30-point lead in the polls, but he watched it dwindle as voters failed to respond to his call for a fairer tax system, for tougher ethics laws and for reform of the state’s 1901 constitution.
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