The late House Speaker Dennis Hastert (R-IL) was an accidental speaker. And it was a sheer accident that the world learned a dark secret about Hastert, years after he left Capitol Hill.
It was twenty years ago, almost to the date. House Republicans were on the verge of losing their majority in the 2006 midterms.
And their Speaker, Dennis Hastert, was in meltdown. HIGHEST-RANKING US OFFICIAL TO EVER SERVE JAIL TIME, FORMER HOUSE SPEAKER DENNIS HASTERT DEAD AT 84 Word had just broken that then-Rep.
Mark Foley (R-FL) had sent inappropriate messages to high school-age male teens, serving as House pages. The Republican-led House was meeting on September 29, 2006, trying to escape town so the GOP could defend their majority.
But nothing was going right for Republicans. The public was growing wea…
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