By: Anne Schroeder Mullins

Rep. Linda Sanchez….pregnant!

The Los Angeles Times announces/reports today:

“You’re practically the first to know. Even her sister and fellow congresswoman, Loretta Sanchez, didn’t know until a few days ago.

“The baby’s father and Sanchez’s “unofficially engaged” beau of a year and a half is Jim Sullivan, a government and PR consultant and the divorced father of three boys.

“Washington is a back-fence-gossip kind of town, and Sanchez expects there to be some fuss and bother.

“I don’t know how it’ll be received,” she said. “I hope people will recognize that to be able to plan that in your life — I don’t think that marriage and childbirth are black and white. There are certain instances in which you have to do things in reverse order.”

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And: “Sanchez is 39 and divorced, and early this year, her doctor told her that “if your intention is to become a mother, I wouldn’t put it off.” So she and Sullivan didn’t. They haven’t yet set a wedding date. As he told me, “We have the rest of our lives to get engaged and married — we don’t have the rest of our lives” for Sanchez to become pregnant.”

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