Sean Hackbarth’s birdie told him last night, and everybody else is catching up this morning. The word on the street is Lott is leaving before the end of this year to take advantage of the fact that new prohibitions on the ability of departing Senators to lobby their former colleagues for 2 years after departure don’t take effect until 2008.
Maybe he’ll get the band back together (as JammieWearingFool suggests), or take up baking lessons (after all, Slublog points out he’s asked us to eat cake).
Revisions/extensions (3:46 pm 11/26/2007) – Got a few of them here:
– First things first, that prohibition mentioned above is also in current law; it just is for one year instead of the two it is going to be soon.
– I wonder just how gold-plated Sean’s source is. The Washington Times says that this came from the White House. (H/T – JWF)
– The Washington Post says that the special election will be with all the other ones in 2008 (they earlier speculated that the 90-day rule would have to kick in if Lott left this year), and that the leading candidate for the appointment is Rep. Roger Wicker. MKH touched on the larger money issue already today, so let me continue. The WaPo notes Wicker has $569,000 in the bank, which makes it seem that the reason Lott acolyte Pickering won’t get the nod is the money. Odd thing is, Pickering has $761,000. The only good news is the prohibitive favorite on the Dem end, former AG Mike Moore, will be starting from scratch.
