Retirement from senate
On October 16, 2007 Matt Mackowiak, a spokesman for Hutchison,
said she would not seek re-election after her current Senate term and may leave before the term ends in 2012 to run for Texas governor. Hutchinson told Texas Monthly magazine that stepping down in two years “has to be considered.”
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Hutchison considered challenging Gov. Rick Perry (R-Texas) in 2006, but backed out. “It was not the right time for Texas and it was probably not the right time for the Republican Party to have that kind of challenge,” she told the magazine. However,
she said now there was not anyone who could make a case that a run for the governorship would be divisive for the Republican Party in a way that would make her step back. If Hutchison does run for governor and wins, once she would step down as senator a temporary appointment would be made by the governor to fill the Senate seat until an election would be held.
If Hutchison does run for governor and wins, once she would step down as senator a temporary appointment would be made by the governor to fill the Senate seat until an election would be held. And then, if Perry is not VP for Rudy, KBH appoints Perry to the Senate and he gets to run as an incumbent in 2012. It's a nice little do-se-do of RINO's.
I will vote for neither of them for any office and will actively support any credible primary opponent.