State Sen. Chris “Not Allowed to Say CPA” Lauzen wrote a weak-kneed passive aggressive missive to retiring former Speaker Denny Hastert a few days back, simultaneously putting him down and asking that he keep his two cents out of the race to replace him.

Hastert’s reply is expected to come shortly. He is anticipated to be endorsing Sen. Lauzen’s main competition in the primary, Jim “4th time may not yet be the charm” Oberweis.

Meanwhile, ArchPundit is still waiting to pop some popcorn for the potential litigious fireworks between the Lauzen and Oberweis camps. Perhaps the shortened primary schedule and extra workload of a special election will put a damper on any sparks.

At least the Oberweis Dairy commercials that just happen to be advertising ice cream during this quite wintry election season aren’t crassly showing candidate Jim, opting to go with his less politically quixotic brother family member instead.