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Maybe he could have used a little better phrasing.
Asked by The Hill, a Washington-based congressional insider news letter, about whether he would support Dennis Hastert, who’s under fire in the Mark Foley sex scandal, for another term as speaker, House District 9 (Hillsborough, Pasco and Pinellas) candidate Gus Bilirakis responded, “We have no stance on that right now — we’ll worry about that after we win.â€
Campaign spokeswoman Liz Hittos acknowledged that doesn’t sound too good, but said the context explains it. The question posed, she said, referred to a specific House leadership election that will take place after the new Congress is elected.
Bilirakis “interpreted it to mean, will you vote for him for speaker, and his feeling was, I don’t want to be presumptuous, I won’t decide that until I’m in office,†Hittos said.
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