McMorris McRunning

This will come as no great surprise to anyone, but Cathy McMorris Rodgers is running for re-election.

Only slightly more surprising, she’s announcing it starting Monday, on St. Patrick’s Day. That’s a tradition for the Eastern Washington Republican, who started her two previous congressional campaigns with events timed to the venerable Irish saint.

She’s got her Top O’ The Morning breakfast — get the Irish reference? — at 7:30 a.m. at the Convention Center. There’s also a Top O’ the Day Lunch — a bit of a stretch, even if your name does start with Mc — at Mirabeau Park Hotel in the Spokane Valley. She’s got another gig in Walla Walla on Wednesday.