Can you call a story breaking when you feel like you broke it almost a month ago? Well, here we are again, with buzz out there growing that Hastert will indeed announce his early retirement, effective the end of the year, tomorrow.
Politico says:
GOP sources said Hastert is expected to formally leave the House sometime in December, although the actual date could not be confirmed at press time
Yes, there is more...
Politico also says in this story that
According to CNN, "Speaker Nancy Pelosi's office provided the floor time to the former speaker to address his colleagues."
Meanwhile, back in IL-14, the Laesch campaign just held it's ballot access party in our Aurora campaign office this evening - we are officially on!
Of course, if this news is true this time (and I will confess that one of our "spies" told us this at the party before Politico or anyone else was reporting it), this is a whole new (special) election, but, heh, we're "on" for a special election too!
More as we know it...
Lisa Bennett
aka Downtowner
blogging for Laesch
cross-posted on PrairieStateBlue