And the twist in his case -- running in the Honolulu-based 1st District, which Democratic Rep. Neil Abercrombie is leaving open to run for governor, and not in the 2nd District that Case represented from 2002 through 2006 -- isn't unheard of, either.
Case certainly isn't the first ex-member to seek a political comeback in a congressional district different than the one he or she previously represented.
A few examples:
California Republican Dan Lungren is in his third term representing the suburbs of Sacramento that comprise the state's 3rd District, though he represented a Long Beach-area district during his first House tenure (1979-89). In between, Lungren relocated to the Sacramento region to serve as California's Attorney General from 1991 through 1998, when he was the losing Republican nominee for governor.
Tennessee Democrat Jim Cooper is in his fourth term representing the Nashville-centered 5th District, but he previously served six terms (1983-95) as the representative of a sprawling district that meandered from southern Tennessee to the state's northeast.
Jay Inslee, a Democrat from Washington state, represented central Washington for a single term (1993-95); in 1998 he was returned to the House from a district closer to Seattle that Inslee continues to represent today.
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