Former Boehner Aides, GOP Sources: House Speaker Will Step Down After 2014 Elections
Source: Huffington Post
Former Boehner Aides, GOP Sources: House Speaker Will Step Down After 2014 Elections
Posted: 09/04/2013 2:25 pm EDT | Updated: 09/04/2013 2:34 pm EDT
WASHINGTON -- Former aides to John Boehner and other high-level GOP operatives are increasingly convinced that the House Speaker will step aside after the 2014 midterm elections, according to interviews with a dozen Republican sources.
All summer, rumors have been swirling around the Hill and K Street that the speaker has had enough and that 2014 would be his last year with the gavel. Then the message went out in July: Boehner (R-Ohio) is not leaving.
Boehner told his inner circle at dinner that there was no truth to the talk, and authorized his people to spread the word around town. A story appeared in Politico the next day, reaffirming Boehner's stated commitment to stay past 2014.
"These inside-the-Beltway parlor games take place every two years. The speaker has made clear publicly he intends to remain in his position in the next Congress," Boehner spokesman Michael Steel told HuffPost.
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How can Boehner "step down" when he never stepped up to begin with?
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