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New Mexico's Wilson to pursue Domenici's seat, sources say - CNN.com |
 | | Domenici, a Republican, announced Thursday that he won't seek re-election next year because he suffers from a progressive, incurable brain condition that might prevent him from completing another six-year term. |
 | | Domenici, first elected to the Senate in 1972 and re-elected five times, said he has been suffering for the last two years from frontotemporal lobar degeneration, or FTLD, a deterioration of brain tissue that can lead to personality changes, difficulty with speech and dementia. |
 | | Domenici joins three other Republican senators who also are retiring at the end of their terms next year, and, with four other Republican senators facing difficult re-election bids, the numbers are stacked against GOP hopes of recapturing the upper chamber of Congress. |
| www.cnn.com /2007/POLITICS/10/05/newmexico.senate/index.html?section=cnn_latest (740 words) |
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