We've got one that just graduated from Indiana University and we've got one away on the west coast at college. So it's a good time for us to rededicate ourselves to public service in some way. And I told our party chairman several years ago that [my return to public service] didn't have to be elected office. But you know, and frankly, a few, about six months ago, four months ago, this was not on my radar screen to run for Congress. (07:31–07:37)
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Asserts that Kevin Coughlin communicated to the party chairman that his return to public service didn't require elected office.
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