And you thought the campaign season just ended. Ha. Just Kidding!
State Rep. Bill Huizenga ran three successful re-election campaigns for U.S. Rep. Pete Hoekstra.
Now Huizenga himself is campaigning for Congress.
The 39-year-old Zeeland Republican planned to officially announce today at an event in his hometown that he will run in 2010 for the 2nd Congressional District seat now held by Hoekstra. He also was to launch a campaign Web site.
Huizenga is chairman of the district for the Michigan Republican Party and was Hoekstra's director of public policy for six years.
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Huizenga is serving his third term in the state House and represents the 90th District through the end of this year. Term limits prohibited him from seeking a fourth term.
During his second term, he was chairman of the House Commerce Committee. In his final term, the GOP lost its majority in the House, which cost him his chairmanship.
It's obviously very soon to be officially announcing a 2010 candidacy for elected office, Huizenga said.
"Clearly, this is early, but like I said, I've had a lot of people asking me," he said.
No rest for the wicked or the weary, indeed.
