Right Commentary (Free subscription) | 05/31/2008
Former House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.) has agreed to join the lobbying law firm Dickstein Shapiro as a senior adviser, the District-based firm said yesterday.
Firedoglake (Free subscription) | 03/17/2008
Ha. ...Republicans on Capitol Hill were suffering a run of bad news that could hold dire implications for the campaign season. It started with the loss last weekend of the seat held for two decades by former House speaker J. Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.). It got worse when Republicans lost potentially strong challengers to Democratic senators in South Dakota and New Jersey, and failed to field anyone to...
The Post Chronicle (Free subscription) | 03/17/2008
The Post reported that the Republicans' run of bad news began with the loss of the congressional seat held for two decades by former House speaker J. Dennis Hastert......
HorsesAss.Org (Free subscription) | 03/16/2008
It's been a bad week for Republicans… It started with the loss last weekend of the seat held for two decades by former House speaker J. Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.). It got worse when Republicans lost potentially strong challengers to Democratic senators in South Dakota and New Jersey, and failed to field anyone to oppose the reelection [...]
The Washington Times (Free subscription) | 03/11/2008
A Democratic win Saturday for the Illinois district seat held solidly by former House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert casts a...
Greg Prince's Blog (Free subscription) | 03/10/2008
Interesting that the GOP couldn't hold Hastert's district. Stunning many who considered the district west of Chicago reliably Republican territory, Bill Foster, a physicist and Democrat, won a special election on Saturday to fill the Congressional seat that J. Dennis Hastert, the former speaker of the House, held for two decades. Mr. Foster’s success deeply disappointed Republicans, [...]
PoliBlog (Free subscription) | 03/09/2008
Back in November, former Speaker of the House, J. Dennis Hastert, resigned from the U.S. House of Representatives, leaving his the 14th District of Illinois having to hold a special election to fill out his term. Yesterday that election was held, and the seat went to a Democrat: Rookie candidate Bill Foster scored a comfortable [...]
Uncertain Principles (Free subscription) | 03/09/2008
Physics comes through at the ballot box : Stunning many who considered the district west of Chicago reliably Republican territory, Bill Foster, a physicist and Democrat, won a special election on Saturday to fill the Congressional seat that J. Dennis Hastert, the former speaker of the House, held for two decades. [...]Mr. Foster defeated James D. Oberweis, a dairy company owner, in a contest for the...
LA Times (Free subscription) | 03/09/2008
The Illinois GOP district changes hands in a special election, seen as a Bush rebuke. A longtime Republican district fell to the Democrats on Saturday when a wealthy businessman and scientist snatched former House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert's congressional seat in a closely watched special election.
Main (Free subscription) | 03/09/2008
Democrat Bill Foster has won the seat vacated by former House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert. Because it was a special election, the seat will be up for grabs again in November.
Democratic Underground (Free subscription) | 03/09/2008
Source: [b]Washington Post [/b] Voters in the far western suburbs of Chicago went to the polls yesterday to decide whether a Republican dairy magnate or a Democratic physicist would succeed former speaker J. Dennis Hastert in the House of Representatives. The race for what was once seen as a sa...
The Caucus (Free subscription) | 03/07/2008
Saturday's election to replace J. Dennis Hastert is emerging as a test case of the ability of Republicans to hold on to the two dozen open seats they will be defending.
New York Times (Free subscription) | 03/06/2008
As the clock ticks to a special election for the seat of Representative J. Dennis Hastert, on Saturday, the race is a toss-up.
ChicagoBusiness.com Breaking News (Free subscription) | 03/04/2008
(Crain's) — The hotly contested race for the far west suburban seat of retired House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert, R-Plano, is getting even hotter, says an influential non-partisan political analyst. The Cook Political Report, an online newsletter originating in the nation's capital, last ...
Lynn Sweet (Free subscription) | 03/04/2008
HOUSTON, TEXAS--Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) plugs Democratic House nominee Bill Foster in a spot made for the Saturday special election for the the 14th congressional district in Illinois--the seat just vacated by former Speaker J. Dennis Hastert (D-Ill.) Foster faces...
