Posted on 05/19/2005 1:43:53 PM PDT by Dog Gone
WASHINGTON She may be able to hang a giant Lone Star flag outside her office, but Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison said today there's one part of her Texas culture she couldn't bring to the nation's capital her handgun.
Hutchison said she didn't know when she arrived from Austin in 1993 that the District of Columbia prohibits keeping a fully assembled handgun in the home. The district's ban has been in place since 1975.
Hutchison, a Republican who is considering a 2006 run for Texas governor, introduced legislation today to lift the ban. If the bill passes she said she would keep a gun in her D.C. home.
Sens. John Cornyn, R-Texas, and George Allen, R-Va., are co-sponsors.
"I have always had a handgun in the drawer next to my bed, and I would certainly again have one if it were legal in D.C.," Hutchison said.
Her office said her handgun is a Smith & Wesson .357 Magnum revolver.
Hutchison said after she learned of the D.C. gun ban, she dismantled her gun, bought a travel case for it and took it back to Texas. She said she's complying with the law even though she thinks it's unconstitutional.
"I think every woman in the District of Columbia should have the ability to protect herself in her home," she said.
Hutchison previously served as chair of the Appropriations subcommittee that oversees funding for the District of Columbia.
A similar attempt at repealing D.C.'s gun ban failed last year. Hutchison lends the clout of a member of the Republican leadership she is the vice-chair of the Republican Conference and her measure has 25 co-sponsors
According to the American Conservative Union's rating ---
Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison's lifetime conservative rating is
91
Now how much higher would you like her to be in order to call her voting record conservative ????
That would be Carole Keeton McClellan Rylander Strayhorn Chafee McCain Hagel.
She'd be the wealthiest woman in Texas if we were dumb enough to permit alimony payments.
;-)
(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)
AGREED!!! Let's get to work on the SC - NOW!
It's becoming less clear every day. Not only is Mitch McConnell dangling the #3 Senate spot, but Bill Clements (first two-term Republican governor since Reconstruction) wrote an editorial in the Dallas Morning News today saying that a primary fight between Hutchison and Perry could devastate the GOP in Texas.
The big guns are telling Kay Bailey to stay in the Senate.
9 points.
Seen this?
A Senator is a citizen.
No special rights to them.
Especially to them.
I hope this measure goes through.
ROFLMAO! In my best Homer Simpson voice: "It's funny 'cause it's TRUE!"
"The men, though?" she continued. "Screw 'em! They're like unborn babies: on their own and not my concern!"
Especially as a Senator! There shall be no royalty! Kay is my Senator and she has often avoided taking a stand......I do wonder why she is now taking the constitutional position?
Hey Kay.....what took so long? Did ya just stumble over an old dusty copy of the United States Constitution/Bill of Rights?
My opinion of her has just risen about a thousand per cent!
Now, we just need to get her on the exact right page---Second Amendment Rights for all!
No more of this "Women should be able to protect themselves in their own homes" BS---We need to get her to change that to
"A well-regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED".
Yeah, George. This was in our morning paper. I don't think George Allen has ever done anything against the Second. Anything he's involved with has got to be good. Besides, we're watching him to make sure and he knows it. KBH couldn't be in better company. Now I sound like a commercial, sorry.
Hey, SASTER! Could you ask your good governor to rub a bit of his good sense off on our good Senator? Looks like just a bit of a push is all that is needed at this point!
I'm hoping she listens. While I'm sure she'd make a fine governor, we need conservative women in the Senate. Nearly all of them there are liberals or "moderates."
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