{"id":636,"date":"2009-06-08T19:45:42","date_gmt":"2009-06-09T00:45:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/?p=636"},"modified":"2018-08-16T15:52:38","modified_gmt":"2018-08-16T20:52:38","slug":"ethan-hastert-officially-in-il-14-officially-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/?p=636","title":{"rendered":"Ethan Hastert officially in: IL-14 officially over"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kcchronicle.com\/articles\/2009\/06\/08\/03362234\/index.xml\">Kane County Chronicle is reporting<\/a> that Ethan Hastert has officially declared he will run for the IL-14 congressional seat formerly held by daddy Denny.<\/p>\n<p>Meh &#8211; no surer way of ensuring Foster hangs on to the seat, imho.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone who was paying any attention at all knows that Foster outpolled Obama in Kane County (which contains about 50% of all voters in IL-14) in &#8217;08 &#8211; and anyone who is local knows damned well why that happened: Lauzen supporters voting for Foster as a means of getting even with the powers-that-be who got behind Oberweis and managed to leverage the nomination for him.<\/p>\n<p>Which makes 2010 a repeat-in-the-making, because Lauzen will be Lauzen, will be Lauzen, ad nauseum: he&#8217;s so scary that moderates will vote for Foster (or whatever alternative is on the ballot) if Lauzen does get the nom, and his supporters are so violently pro-Chris, they will likewise vote for whatever alternative there may be to the Repub who beat Chris out for the nomination &#8211; exactly as they did in &#8217;08.<\/p>\n<p>Only way out of the spoiler-Lauzen scenario for local Repubs is if they can get Lauzen to throw his support behind someone like Ethan Hastert.  And anyone who has followed Lauzen&#8217;s career knows there&#8217;s a snowball&#8217;s chance in hell of that happening.<\/p>\n<p>So the Dem on the ballot in IL-14 in 2010 is elected by default: barring Lauzen getting struck by lightning or a random meteorite, it&#8217;s already done.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Kane County Chronicle is reporting that Ethan Hastert has officially declared he will run for the IL-14 congressional seat formerly held by daddy Denny. Meh &#8211; no surer way of ensuring Foster hangs on to the seat, imho. Anyone who was paying any attention at all knows that Foster outpolled Obama in Kane County [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[78],"tags":[15,175,7,104,9,2869],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=636"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":639,"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636\/revisions\/639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}