Jeff Flake Announces that He Won’t Seek Re-Election ‘I Will Not Be Complicit or Silent’

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FLAKE: “What do we as United States senators have to say about it? The principles that underlie our politics, the values of our founding are too vital to our identity and to our survival to allow them to be compromised by the requirements of politics because politics can make us silent when we should speak. And silence can equal complicity. I have children and grandchildren to answer to. And so, Mr. President, I will not be complicit or silent."