Posted on 08/14/2007 6:20:28 AM PDT by Clintonfatigued
The congressional retirement season has started, and it appears former Speaker Dennis Hastert may soon announce his own plans to ride off into the sunset.
The Illinois Republican sent supporters a letter over the weekend asking them to join him for a speech this Friday at the Kendall County Courthouse in Yorkville, Ill.
The letter does not say whether he'll run for reelection in 2008 or announce his retirement, but speculation skews heavily toward retirement. And neither Hastert nor his aides have done much to dispel the widely accepted opinion back home that he'll call it quits. For example, an aide did not respond to an e-mail about the weekend letter.
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Enough better that I will take another, much closer, look at Hastert's record to see why I have the feelings about him that I do. I do recall that the Nancy Dorn episode really stuck with me and other conservatives, but it's more than that. We'll see.
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