Moore tells supporters he’s running for re-election in 2010

Shortly after Democratic Congressman Dennis Moore won a sixth term in November, speculation swirled that he might retire at the end of his term.But in a Dec. 23 letter mailed to supporters, Moore announces: “I want you to be the first to know that I am officially running for my seventh Congressional term in 2010.”Moore represents the Third District of Kansas, which includes most of eastern Lawrence, eastern Douglas County plus Johnson and Wyandotte counties. The former Johnson County district attorney is currently the only Democrat in the Kansas delegation.Moore’s success has been a major bright spot for Kansas Democrats in the last decade, but his intention to try to stay where he is also takes him off a list of potential gubernatorial candidates for Democrats in 2010, when Gov. Kathleen Sebelius ends her second term in office.