* 10:00 am - From the Politico…

STOKKE TO SUCCEED HASTERT? Robert D. Novak plans to report this weekend in his always-delicious tidbits column (which doesn’t run in The Washington Post, but is usually in Saturday’s New York Post):

“Former House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert has indicated to a close former aide that it is likely he will not run for a 12th term from his northern Illinois district and may even resign from Congress before his present term concludes. That runs counter to widespread speculation on Capitol Hill that Hastert will continue in the House for another two years as a private member with no leadership responsibilities. Since last year’s Democratic takeover of Congress moved him out of the speaker’s office, he has enjoyed returning to his former specialty of energy issues as a member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee.

“A footnote: If Hastert does not run, a leading candidate will be his chief of staff, Mike Stokke. Before going on Hastert’s staff, Stokke was an aide for both the Illinois state legislature and the governor’s office in Springfield.”

Stokke? That’s coming out of right field. But Novak’s sources for this stuff are usually pretty good.

* 10:04 am - Today’s leaders meeting is at noon.

* 10:13 am - Just 87 House members answered the roll call.

* 10:17 am - The House and Senate are adjourning for the weekend and won’t come back into session until Monday at 4 pm. [UPDATE: The House will be in at 4, the Senate at 2]

* 10:43 am - Just 25 Senators are on the floor.

* 12:17 pm - A three-page list of clergy from throughout Illinois just sent out “An Appeal to the Leaders of the Illinois General Assembly to Overcome Their Differences in Order to Address Pressing Issues.” But there’s zero mention of the governor and his own reluctance to overcome his differences with others, so it may be dismissed out of hand by many. Download the letter here.

* 1:49 pm - The leaders meeting is over. The gist was that they talked mostly about the capital spending program. No talk of how to fund it, but did talk about how to spend it and how much to spend.

* 2:45 pm - Isn’t this the governor’s usual schtick?

Top Democratic legislative leaders are planning to tout the benefits of a new electric rate relief package in a statewide flyaround.

An announcement today from House Speaker Michael Madigan’s office says the speaker will join Senate President Emil Jones and Attorney General Lisa Madigan on tour stops Monday that include Decatur.

The trio will meet with elected officials, community leaders and local residents to describe the details of a deal to provide about one billion dollars in relief over four years to customers hit hard by sharp increases this year.

I’d like to be on that plane, especially after all the harsh words that Jones has had for Lisa Madigan this year. Detente is such a weird thing.

* 3:31 pm - Campaign finance disclosure reports are due today. The new law that moved the primary date also moved the disclosure filing deadline up to the 20th (from the 31st). So you can click here over the weekend to search for various candidates. The governor told me last week that he has raised almost no money, but that his big fundraiser would likely be in October some time.

By the way, the governor has a new campaign committee chairman. Lon Monk, his former chief of staff and now a lobbyist, is out as of today. Steve Witek, VP of A Finkl & Sons, is the new chair.

* 3:40 pm - Mayor Daley raised $3,780,899.81 in the first six months of this year (not including in-kinds), spent $4,640,781.83 and had $3,385,406.22 in the bank.