Rep. Cheri Bustos has some parting advice for her fellow Democrats: Go home, listen and remember who you work for.
Ms. Bustos, who won five elections in a rural swing district in Illinois but decided to leave Congress at the end of this year, calls herself a “reasonable Democrat” and credits her electoral success to spending time on the ground at home instead of Inside the Beltway.
“You go out to Washington, D.C., to vote but your job is at home,” Mrs. Bustos said in an interview with The Washington Times. “I went home every weekend and I worked every Saturday.