Boehner, Blunt and Pence remain the names on everyone’s list, but a DeLay staffer says that the former Majority Leader has his horse in the race and it is …
Rep. Mike Rogers of Michigan.
Rogers is a former FBI agent, a DeLay acolyte and a solid conservative. That DeLay is touting him is significant. As we have said all along, DeLay will play a role in the selection of a new leader.
According to several leadership staff sources, Rogers intends to make a play for a leadership position. “It’s not clear that majority leader is what he’s looking at. I know that people have talked to him about that, but he really seems interested in moving up the ladder taking a leading role in the caucus,” says one source.
