The woman who was hired and then fired by House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) as House historian decided not to run against him. Christina Jeffrey was fired from the post following complaints that she had criticized the Education Department for not including the Nazi and Ku Klux Klan viewpoints in its Holocaust course. Jeffrey made her decision after a judge ruled she would have to give up her post as a state employee in order to run.
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