Former Assembly Speaker John Gard is expected to announce Sunday that he intends to run to unseat U.S. Rep Steve Kagen, D-Appleton.
Gard, 44, who was narrowly defeated by Kagen in 2006, was backed by the Republican National Committee in his previous run for Congress.
Gard's campaign spokesman Mark Graul declined to say Thursday whether Gard was the party's pick this time around.
"The only 'pick' that John Gard is concerned about is that he's the pick of the people of northeastern Wisconsin," he said.
Graul said Gard, who lives in Suamico, has spent much of his time since August talking with voters about support for him running again.
Gard will make his announcement at 1:30 p.m. Sunday at the Bay Beach Park main pavilion in Green Bay, and at 3:30 p.m. in the Pierce Park picnic pavilion in Appleton.
Gard certainly isn't making TWO announcements on Sunday to say he intends NOT to run against Kagen.
Surely, the people of the 8th District will get it right this time.
"If our children are healthy, they'll develop into their full potential and become wonderful tax-paying citizens sometime."
"Then I go to [President Bush's] wife, 'Hi Barbara, how are ya?' I did that because I learned on the campaign that the meanest thing you can say to another gentlemen is, 'he's a fine fellow,' and you then refer to his spouse by a different name."
--STEVE KAGEN
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