Ousted California Rep. Dana Rohrabacher moving to Maine

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After three decades in Congress, ousted Rep. Dana Rohrabacher is starting over.

The California Republican isn’t just leaving Congress, he’s also moving to Maine, his spokesman told the Wall Street Journal.

Rohrabacher, who lost re-election in the November midterm elections, is reportedly considering creating a consulting firm with his top aide Paul Behrends, though his spokesman said it’s just one of many options Rohrabacher is weighing.

He’s prohibited under law from lobbying his former colleagues for at least a year after he leaves Congress, but he is allowed to consult on government affairs and give advice on public policy.

The outgoing lawmaker said in November he was working on a couple of film scripts.

“I may end up as a screenwriter, who knows — it’s time for this guy to go to Hollywood, baby!” he said.

Rohrabacher raised eyebrows in recent years over his pro-Russia stances. He met with WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in 2017.

WikiLeaks played a role in the dissemination of emails hacked from Hillary Clinton’s campaign chairman John Podesta’s account during the 2016 campaign. An indictment from special counsel Robert Mueller alleges Russia stole thousands of emails and passed them along to WikiLeaks, who trickled out their release in the weeks leading up to Election Day.

Rohrabacher later tried to broker a pardon from Trump for Assange, but was never able to have a conversation with the president about the possibility.

As Rohrabacher heads East, Maine’s two-term Gov. Paul LePage plans to move to Florida for part of the year.

“I am going to retire and go to Florida,” LePage said in November. “I am done with politics. I have done my eight years. It’s time for somebody else.”

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