Allen West

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Former Rep. Allen West (R-Fla.) speaks at this year's Conservative Political Action Conference (C.P.A.C.) held at the Gaylord National Hotel, National Harbor, Md., Thursday, March 14, 2013. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

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**FILE** Rep. Allen West (right), Florida Republican, waves before introducing Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney (center) and Romney's wife, Ann, during a campaign rally in Port St. Lucie, Fla., on Oct. 7, 2012. (Associated Press)

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**FILE** Cara Jennings joins a Nov. 8, 2012, demonstration outside the Palm Beach Circuit Court building in West Palm Beach, Fla., where people demanded Republican Rep. Allen West stop his battle to keep his congressional seat. (Associated Press)

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**FILE** Rep. Allen West (left), Florida Republican, greets the crowd before a campaign rally for Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, Sunday in Port St. Lucie, Fla., on Oct. 7, 2012. (Associated Press)

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**FILE** Rep. Allen West (right), Florida Republican, picks up a boy as he greats the crowd before a campaign rally for Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney in Port St. Lucie, Fla., on Oct. 7, 2012. (Associated Press)

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**FILE** Rep. Allen West (right), Florida Republican, campaigns with Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney and Romney's wife, Ann, at Tradition Town Square in Port St. Lucie, Fla., on Oct. 7, 2012. (Associated Press)

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**FILE** Linda McSpadden demands that Rep. Allen West, Florida Republican, stop his battle for his congressional seat, Florida's 18th District, outside the Palm Beach Circuit Court House in West Palm Beach, Fla. on Nov. 8, 2012. (Associated Press)

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**FILE** Rep. Allen West, Florida Republican, is seen here during an Oct. 4, 2011, news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington. (Associated Press)

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FILE - In this July 30, 2011 file photo, Rep. Allen West, R-Fla. talks on Capitol Hill in Washington. Conspiracy theorists came out in force Friday, Oct. 5, 2012, after the government reported a sudden drop in the U.S. unemployment rate one month before Election Day. West agreed with former GE CEO Jack Welch's skepticism of the Labor Department's announcement that the unemployment rate had fallen to 7.8 percent in September from 8.1 percent the month before. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

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**FILE** Rep. Allen West, Florida Republican, speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Washington on Feb. 10, 2012. (Associated Press)

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Rep.-elect Allen West, Florida Republican, is a retired Army officer who hopes to bring more discipline to the spending ways of his new colleagues on Capitol Hill beginning in January. (Associated Press)