Michael Williams for TX Governor 2010. No more RINOs !
Posted on 03/30/2008 11:32:48 AM PDT by lqcincinnatus
CORPUS CHRISTI — Hutchison plans to run for governor in 2010
The Austin and Republican rumor mills have been in overdrive for months about Gov. Rick Perry's future political plans.
U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison is planning to run for governor in 2010, her spokesman Matt Mackowiak said while he was in town Wednesday. If she resigns her Senate seat to devote her efforts to the governor's race, Perry would name her successor.
Mentioned as the top front-runners are Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst (who also has indicated that he plans to run for governor), former Secretary of State Roger Williams, Texas Railroad Commission Chairman Michael Williams and, if he so chooses, Perry himself.
During a fundraiser at Jerry and Glenda Kane's Hewit Drive home Wednesday night, Perry addressed the rumors that he wants to move up from the state Capitol to the U.S. Capitol.
"I don't want to go to Washington, D.C., in any form or fashion and I won't," he said.
Talking about his objectives for 2009, the governor left the door open to running for re-election. There are no gubernatorial term limits in Texas.
"I have a lot of things I want to get done during the next session," the governor said. "If I get those things done I may ride off into the sunset. But if I don't I'll run for re-election."
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Thanks for pinging Fiddlstix.
I’m just not fond of Hutchison at all, but then, I’m not fond of Perry either. Texas is sliding leftward...
What she actually did was defund the Fence, or wipe out the mandate, whichever.
The Hutchison amendment reads, in part, “ nothing in this paragraph shall require the Secretary of Homeland Security to install fencing, physical barriers, roads, lighting, cameras, and sensors in a particular location along an international border of the United States, if the Secretary determines that the use or placement of such resources is not the most appropriate means to achieve and maintain operational control over the international border at such location.”
“By slipping the Hutchison amendment into the DHS funding bill, Hutchison intends to give DHS total discretion to build a fence or to not build a fence in any particular location. That is not what the American people were led to believe would happen when Congress passed the Secure Fence Act in 2006,” Elliott said.
http://www.plnewsforum.com/index.php?/forums/viewthread/26702/
I will make it my business that every appropriate group is notified of her true stance on the issue of the illegals, unless MxCain sells us out before 2010.
Perry won't run for a third full term. By the end of his term in January 2011, he will have already served a little over 2½ terms.
Perry won't run for a third full term. By the end of his term in January 2011, he will have already served a little over 2½ terms.
It sure seems like it.
Bring back KINKY!
I thought Kinky indicated he may return to his party the democrats and run for their nomination next time.
Well, just so long as the GOP governor’s mansion remains in GOP hands . . .
Interesting Idea, Ron Paul for Governo
Paul can’t win outside the 14th..... Or hasn’t been able to in the past.
Michael Williams for TX Governor 2010. No more RINOs !
It’s a tough call. If Hutchinson does win the Governorship, she’ll be term-limited and her successor would face a special election.
No tough call here. Hutchison is an open-borders squish whom would be an exceptionally poor choice for our party to nominate. She has also been far removed from Austin politics (by 2011, it will have been 18 years removed), and ostensibly popular Senators have fared poorly as Governor. From what I’ve heard of Michael Williams, he is a fairly good Conservative.
Yeah, I’m not just real fond of KBH myself. PL and I
have compared notes on that on a number of occasions.
KBH for Governor? Oh, Geez! Not sure which I relish
the LEAST: KBH for TX Gov or McRINO for Prez .....
Didn’t she carry Bush’s water a couple of months ago sponsoring a bill to make the fence single thick and slow down the construction schedule by years?
Didn’t she carry Bush’s water a couple of months ago sponsoring a bill to make the fence single thick and slow down the construction schedule by years?
It does seem that way, we all agree to that.
Let’s ALL try to keep the TX Conservative’s feet to the fire !!!
CC to John Cornyn, Sam Johnson et al !!!
Tell them to keep up the good work and to keep slugging
away...
Is William gonna run?
Is Perry gonna run again? I don’t much about him other than people here aren’t very high on him.
Williams may run, he has close to two years to make it official. There’s no term limits for TX Governor last I checked, so Perry could keep running indefinitely. But his poor showing in ‘06 in a 4-way race ought to be the writing on the wall that 10 years as Governor is way long enough. He’s already going to be the longest serving Governor in state history with that (and will break Allan Shivers record for longest uninterrupted service this summer).
Yeah, Perry wants his 'secret' wheeling and dealing on the Trans Texas Corridor to go through;
Let's hope someone better than Hutchison turns up and Perry rides off into the sunset!
I am a big fan of Chairman Michael Williams, having met him a few times. I hope he is the appointee because the more conservatives know about him, the better.
"I don't want to go to Washington, D.C., in any form or fashion and I won't," he said.
Good, Ricky, because we don't want you there, either.
My best result would be for Dewhurst to become Guv, and for KBH to be replaced by a conservative.
Texas deserves better in both the Senate and the Governor's chair than KBH and Guv Goodhair.
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