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Friday, September 28, the political world was rocked when the Speaker of the US House of Representative John Boehner (R-Ohio) announced that he had made the decision to resign from the both Speakership and his seat in the US House of Representatives.
U.S. Rep. Mo Brooks, R-5th, accurately predicted on Friday that a congressman from California would go after the House Speaker position.
On Monday, House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy announced his candidacy for the role left vacant by the surprise announcement that current House Speaker John Boehner would resign at the end of October.
Brooks made his prediction while speaking to Yellowhammer Radio about Boehner's resignation announcement on Friday.
John Boehner, the 13-term Ohio Congressman who led the Republican party to an impressive House majority in 2010 and again in 2012, announced he's stepping down as Speaker of the Houseand will resign from Congress at the end of October.
House Speaker John Boehner's abrupt decision on Friday to step down from his post and his congressional seat effective next month came as a shock to the Alabama congressional delegation, who said the path forward for the Republican agenda in the House remains unclear until a successor to Boehner is picked.