My Prediction: Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison, R-TX, Votes 'YES' On Sotomayor (Vanity)

me | 07/14/2009 | me

[devane617]

Ok fellow Freepers, here it is: Sen Kay Bailey Hutchison, R-TX, will vote 'YES' in favor of confirming Sotomayor to the SCOTUS.

I believe she is ready to toss Republicans overboard in favor of the 20% hispanic vote.

I hope everyone that reads this is able to come back and say I was wrong.

[devane617]

I think she will LOSE big to RP. I heard a story last night that she may be backing away from a possible run. She MUST know by now that it will be a mess of epic proportions. If she is smart she will bow gracefully, take the many thanks for her service to Texas and ride off into the sunset. The alternative is she will be responsible for creating a mess down here in Texas that will divide our conservative group — and still lose.

[deport]

Just for the record if she follows through.......

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/hotstories/6551745.html

Hutchison will vote ‘nay’ on Sotomayor
By STEWART M. POWELL Copyright 2009 Houston Chronicle Washington Bureau
July 28, 2009, 7:01PM

WASHINGTON — Texas Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison announced Tuesday that she would oppose confirmation for Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor after the Senate Judiciary Committee voted to send the jurist’s nomination to the full Senate for confirmation next week.

Hutchison, who had opposed Sotomayor’s elevation to the U.S. Court of Appeals in 1998, said the New York judge’s position on the Second Amendment raised the possibility that she might not support an individual right to bear arms .

The senator also expressed concern about Sotomayor’s statement at a Duke University law school forum four years ago that legal “policy” was made by federal appeals courts.

“I believe judges should interpret the law, not make it,” Hutchison said in a statement issued late Tuesday.
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[devane617]

Thank you very much for remembering my post. I stand corrected! I am glad she will oppose Sotomayor. Also, saw a story today that she replaced her campaign manager. She wants to be gov, but I don’t think she has the support. On July 16th Rassmusen polls indicated she was 10 points behind Perry, so maybe she saw the writing on the wall and decided to give it one last try with a new manager.

[deport]

Also, saw a story today that she replaced her campaign manager.

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I was up in the DFW area today and it was on the radio news. Here’s a clip from the DMN Trailblazer Blog.....

http://trailblazersblog.dallasnews.com/archives/2009/07/hutchisons-campaign-manager-ou.html

Hutchison’s campaign manager out

A few weeks before she’s expected to formally annouce what we all know - she’s running for governor - Kay Bailey Hutchison’s campaign manager of six months is gone. Rick Wiley is being replaced with Terry Sullivan.

What’s old is what’s new. Sullivan was leading the 2006 campaign Kay For Governor campaign that she quit. Now that she’s back, pledging to really take on Gov. Rick Perry in the primary, so is Sullivan, who is known as a hardball strategist.

The change comes as supporters worried allowed that the senator’s message is muddied and that she’s slipped behind in the polls. Wiley said, as has been widely rumored and rejected previously, that he is going to Wisconsin to work for Mark Neumann for governor.

Hutchison also has added three new communications folks: Jeff Sadosky, who worked in communications in her Senate office, as press secretary; Joe Pounder, a rapid-response guru for House Whip Eric Cantor, R-Virginia; and Jennifer Coxe-Baker, who headed the public affairs office for Labor Sec. Elaine Chao in the Bush Administration.