This will definitely be brief, but since the word that Hastert is retiring is starting to get around, I wanted to post this quickly.
Dennis Hastert has scheduled a formal announcement for this Friday, at the Kendall County Courthouse, regarding his plans whether or not to seek another term in Congress.
Today, there are reports out there that the announcement will be of his retirement. Locally, we can not confirm. His office really is maintaining a tight ship on this one.
The CQ story (linked above) comes closest to saying his retirement is a certainty - but even they only cite "GOP sources."
As noted in the updates to Jonathan Singer's diary on MyDD here, though, there is no absolute confirmation. Eh, as someone who has experienced a couple of Decades 'O Denny masquerading as my congressperson, I can only hope!
We are planning on being present in Yorkville at the announcement and hope to live-blog it then.
Lisa Bennett
aka Downtowner
blogging for the Laesch Campaign