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

 

[GulfBreeze]

LOL

[AuH2ORepublican]

“No primaries for this special election. All regardless of party run on the same ballot, and the two top votegetter met.”

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OK, I’m confused. While I understand that a special election to fill a U.S. House vacancy in TX would be in “jungle primary” format (which is what you described), why would that be the case to fill a Senate vacancy? Doesn’t Governor Perry get to appoint Hutchison’s (temporary) succesor, with a successor to serve for the remainder of the term elected in November 2010 (presumably following a normal primary calendar)? This article states that that’s how Texas law reads: http://blogs.chicagotribune.com/news_columnists_ezorn/2008/12/how-other-states-fill-senate-vacancies.html. I know that when Hutchison was elected to replace Bentsen’s temporary replacement that it was a special election held in the Spring of 1993, but perhaps the law has been changed since.

[AuH2ORepublican]

“Black RINO White RINO.

What’s the difference?”

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I agree that it wouldn’t make a difference whether a RINO was black or white, but given that Michael Williams is by no means a RINO, your comment is inappropriate.

[AuH2ORepublican]

I think you replied in the wrong thread.

[Jedidah]

Good man from a good family. Excellent news.

Now would someone please step up to run for governor and retire the cheerleader and the yell leader? Please?

[DonnerT]

Call me a cynic. I didn’t see anything to indicate he is any different from all other professional parasites.

[Texas Federalist]

He is an absolutely amazing speaker in person.

[Texas Federalist]

I didn’t see anything to indicate he is any different from all other professional parasites.

Then maybe you should get to know him better. Those of us who do take great offense with your comment. This is a fine CONSERVATIVE man who is going to need all the support he can to defeat David Dewherst, Florence Shapiro, Roger Williams, and any other business as usual candidate that pops up.

[DonnerT]

"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."

You may think him inoculated. I think him tainted.

[Texas Federalist]

Yes, that statement is detestable. The last thing we need is innovation and job creation.

[DonnerT]

Neither of which is the province of government!

[Stat-boy]

He was great at the convention. In addition, I heard him speak in private, smaller groups. His convictions are very genuine.

[Texas Federalist]

Neither of which is the province of government!

You are thinking too narrowly and importing meaning into his statement that isn't there.

Cutting taxes unleashes the power of innovation and creates jobs. Eliminating government regulation unleashes the power of innovation and creates jobs.

Cutting taxes and eliminating government regulations are not the province of government?

[gargoyle]

...Question. Sarcasm, bigotry, or are yer bilious???

[Impy]

". Could it be White and Sharp? Possibly?"

(Screams on the inside) It's still Cajun style!

[YCTHouston]

Bill White is an imperious little prince who can’t take any criticism. During the hurricane recovery he verbally abused a female volunteer who had come here from Georgia, without even bothering to find out if she was responsible for the situation. He then refused to apologize and got a free pass from local media that adores him.

I cannnot wait to seem his glass jaw in a hardball statewide contest.

[DonnerT]

You are thinking too narrowly and importing meaning into his statement that isn't there.

You are dreaming and importing meaning into his statement that isn't there.

I see nothing in his statements that points to the restoration of our government to its constitutional bounds.

[crusty old prospector]

Another poster mentioned that he needed to drop the bowtie. It was in response to that.

[Texas Federalist]

No. I’m taking a preliminary press release for what it is. Perhaps Linda Shapiro would be more up your alley as a Senate candidate. Or David Dewhurst. Please.

[potlatch]

Thanks Meek. I’m not very familiar with him, will learn more as time goes on. I don’t want Hutchison as Governor but Perry isn’t so great either, lol.