I'm running for the U.S. Senate (Chairman Michael Williams - Texas)

Email | 12/16/08 | Texas Railroad Commission Chairman Michael Williams

[GulfBreeze]

I’m running for the U.S. Senate‏

From: Chairman Michael Williams (MichaelWilliams@secureixs.com)

Sent: Tue 12/16/08 7:24 PM

To:

Dear Friend,

With much encouragement from my fellow Texans, with the support of my wife Donna, and with firm resolve to make the America of tomorrow more prosperous and free than the nation we know today, I am announcing my candidacy for the United States Senate.

We are at a critical juncture in time, and the likelihood of a special election to replace Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison provides an historic opportunity for Texans to rekindle our can-do spirit and offer forward-looking solutions to the great challenges posed by an economic crisis, record debt, two simultaneous wars, and our dependence on foreign energy.

I have served at every level of government: in three cabinet departments under two presidential administrations, as an elected member of the Texas Railroad Commission and as a local prosecutor in the Midland County District Attorneys office. I know the honor of public service is not holding an office, but preserving the public trust.

If elected, I will address these issues that demand national and international leadership:

1. Economy: we need a long-term prosperity agenda starting with a tax code that rewards work, encourages saving, investment and entrepreneurship; incentives for innovation, research and development yielding to solutions for more and higher-valued jobs, steadier wages and stronger retirements.
2. Energy and Environment: we need to develop pro-growth energy and environment solutions for greater energy security that will produce more American energy, accelerate the use of alternative energy technologies and promote greater energy efficiency and conservation.

3. Education: we need to rekindle a love of learning in America’s classrooms, specifically a renewed focus on math, science, engineering and technology.
4. National Security: we need to ensure safer communities and neighborhoods by enforcing our laws, protecting our borders and making sure our military continues to be the strongest in the world to defend America and defeat our enemies.
5. Health care: we need transformational health solutions and policies that create better health care, more choices at affordable costs.

I am uniquely experienced to address these great challenges. Having served in the U.S. Departments of Education, Justice and Treasury, I know we can do so much more to unleash the power of innovation and job creation and to make education and opportunity accessible to all. And as an elected leader in the energy industry, I know we can increase exploration at home, invest in cleaner sources of energy, and protect the environment for future generations.

We can have economic prosperity and cleaner air and water. We can have financial security without our elected officials compromising their conservative principles. We can have an efficient, effective government that controls spending and lives within its means. We can have government accountable to the people.

This campaign is not about me. It’s about you. As a candidate, I hope not to be the focal point, but the mirror that reflects the hopes, dreams and concerns of every Texan.

In traveling to every corner of this state, I have listened to a great many Texans. I have heard the calls for a new voice in Washington who can bring about change and reform to a culture that desperately needs it. And I know the change Texans seek is not a blank check for Congress, but a voice of reason when it comes to your money. With your help, we can be that new voice and create a Texas with greater liberty and prosperity. We can generate a sense of optimism in all communities and neighborhoods across the state.

To me change is not just a slogan, it is a lifelong calling. Thousands of Texans have called upon me to take this step—to offer myself up in service to change the way Washington works. I take this step neither lightly nor flippantly, but with full faith in the possibilities of a new tomorrow, and undying devotion to the greatest people on the face of the earth—the people of Texas.

I ask for your prayers, your continued friendship and your full support. I look forward to seeing you on the trail.

 

PAID FOR BY MICHAEL WILLIAMS FOR U.S. SENATE COMMITTEE

www.WilliamsForTexas.com

 

[AuH2ORepublican]

According to his official Texas Railroad Commission biography, Michael Williams is a member of the Most Blessed Sacrament Catholic Church in Arlington, TX:

http://www.rrc.state.tx.us/commissioners/williams/about/bio.php

[AuH2ORepublican]

"As far as how he matches up to Bill White...It’s going to be a tough road to hoe for MW...With the momentum the dims have going these days..." ------------------ Well, first of all, roads are always tough to hoe; I think you meant "a tough row to hoe." : ) Second, even in 2008, Sen. John Cornyn and John McCain won in TX by 12%, and 2010 almost certainly won't be as good an electoral environment for Democrats as 2006 or 2008 were. In a Williams-White match-up, Michael Williams would be favored. Frankly, I think the GOP primary will be Williams's toughest test.

[PhiKapMom]

I really like Michael Williams!

[PhiKapMom]

I remember his speech at the Convention. He has always been one of my favorites.

[PhiKapMom]

If I didn’t know better from your post, I would have thought that ZERO won Texas instead of losing by 12% and that Cornyn would have lost or had a close race and he also won by 12%.

How do you come up with Dem momentum in TX? Your post doesn’t track with facts.

[Impy]

She is running but it looks like she wants to quite the Senate before then.

[Impy]

I’ve heard of her. I forget if she is any good.

[Redbob]

Excellent!
About time we had a Conservative in that seat!

[Theodore R.]

Two railroad commissioners will be running, for Elizabeth Ames Jones is also in the race. And the Democrat former Comptroller Sharp is running.

[Theodore R.]

No primaries for this special election. All regardless of party run on the same ballot, and the two top votegetter met. Could it be White and Sharp? Possibly? Tbey can be of the same party in the special election runoff.

[DonnerT]

Black RINO White RINO.

What’s the difference?

[Seruzawa]

Cue X-files music.

[stevie_d_64]

I’ll clarify...

I meant overall democrat party momentum around the country...

Texas certainly didn’t go the way of the dodo too much...Sorry if I wasn’t clear on that...

[stevie_d_64]

Maybe so...The Republican party leadership has certainly left a lot to be desired in who they hitch their wagon to lately...

Leaving conservative grassroots folks with an uphill battle to have to accept moderates and RINO’s to vote for because once again the alternative was worse...

[Def Conservative]

Williams is no RINO.

[smokingfrog]

Yes (according to snopes)

[smokingfrog]

sounds good to me

[MeekOneGOP]

He's a longtime friend of W's from Midland. He was on Bush 41's presidential primary campaign staff in 1980 and then the Reagan-Bush '80 campaign.

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Pingin' some Texans and a few others here as well. :)

Maybe a good replacement for KBH !?!?!

[fieldmarshaldj]

Well, I’ll support him in whatever he decides, though I think he’d make a much finer Governor. Perry has overstayed his welcome and Kay is just plain wrong.

[mathluv]

He spoke at the 2000 convention in Houston, too. I have no problem supporting him.