Saying that the "office doesn't belong to me. It belongs to the people of Wisconsin and there is something to be said for not staying in office too long," Sen. Herb Kohl (D-Wis.), announced Friday that he won't seek a fifth term next year.
He is the eighth senator, and sixth Democrat, to decline to seek reelection next year.
The political action committees of CUNA and NAFCU never gave him money because in all of his campaigns he declined to take PAC money. He mostly self financed his campaigns and in 2006 spent more than $6 million of his own money to win reelection with 67% of the vote.
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