10.02.06

Stories changing fast

Posted in Election, GOP, Government at 5:22 pm by LeisureGuy

Not just the stories from the GOP House leadership—the stories from GOP Representatives. Josh Marshall had this good idea:

What does your member of Congress think? It’s no mystery what Dems think. But what about Republicans? Does the Republican candidate in your district believe that Denny Hastert should remain as Speaker? If they’re elected on November 7th and the Republican retain their majority, will they vote for him for Speaker?

It seems like a pretty fair and germane question.

Ring up your Rep. Let us know what you hear. We’ll share your results with the rest of our readers.

The first set of responses:

So a quick run-down on what some Republican reps are telling TPM Readers about Denny Hastert …

Rob Simmons (R-CT): Anyone involved in a cover up should resign. But no answer on the Hastert hypothetical.

Dave Reichert (R-WA): No position yet.

John Kline (R-MN): 100% with Hastert, doesn’t believe he knew.

Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA): 100% with Denny.

Ray LaHood (R-IL): Sticking with Hastert.

Eric Cantor (R-VA): Preparing a statement.

Jim Gerlach (R-PA): Too early to say.

Steve Buyer (R-IN): Staffer not at liberty to answer.

Sue Kelly (R-NY): Supports “the investigation”, will be sending a letter to constituents.

Ric Keller (R-FL): “Supports a full investigation into this matter”, staffer “could not comment” on whether Keller has lost confidence in the leadership.

Brian Bilbray (R-CA): “Bilbray’s office gave me a bunch of stuff about not all the facts being in. They said he was in a meeting right now concerning the situation. I said I’d call back in a few hours to find out how the meeting went.”

Mike Turner (R-OH): No position on Hastert.

And now this very interesting note from Josh:

On the phone calls to members of Congress to see if they still support Speaker Hastert, it’s probably important to keep calling or repeat the calls since, from what I can tell, the answers seem to be changing from moment to moment as the story progresses.

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