Posted on 07/29/2009 1:39:55 PM PDT by Baladas
Update, 3:35 p.m.: A source close to Perry predicts the special election will be held before May, noting that the governor has the sole authority to decide when the race will be run and believes the state needs a full time senator sooner rather than later. Developing....
Original Post
Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison's (R-Texas) announcement that she will resign her seat this fall sets off a rare Senate special election next spring.
"The actual leaving of the Senate will be sometime -- October, November -- that, in that time frame," Hutchison told Mark Davis, a conservative talk radio host in Dallas, this morning.
Hutchison had long been expected to resign from the Senate to focus full time on her challenge to Gov. Rick Perry (R) in next March's primary although some national Republicans held out hope that she might stay in the Senate. (She doesn't have to resign to run thanks to Fix Political Hall of Fame member Lyndon Baines Johnson.)
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Don’t let the door hit ya where the Good Lord split ya!
BUMP
Setting the stage for Bill White(D) to return to Washington DC.
She has never seemed very bright to me.
vaudine
Great! One less vote against health care at the end of this year.
(BTW, if we purge all of the RINOs out of the party, we will have less than a dozen Senators to oppose Obama.)
I did like her comeback to Ann Richards many moons ago. Ann said “Poor Kay, born with a silver spoon in her mouth.” Kay said “Poor Ann, born with silver roots in her hair.”
Will the MSM 24/7 mock her as a “quitter”?
KBH as gov of Texas—what a nightmare!!! She is trailing Perry 10 points in a recent poll, and I pray that the good people of TX has more sense that to elect her as gov.
wow, why all the Hutchinson hate?
did I miss something? I thought she has been fairly conservative in her voting, maybe I missed something...
RINOs support Obama so what are you talking about?
Here in Florida just after Easter we see all kinds of New Yorkers heading north.
We say, take a Canadian and an Ohioan with ya pal.
Yo Kay Bailey, please ya hag, take a couple more damned RINO turds with ya.
Bitch.
I hope that someone will publicly ask Kay if she thinks that Obama should identify himself by producing a legal birth certificate and school records.
Why? Sick? Scandal? What?
Kinky Friedman’s team has hired the same propagandist to make some posters for his Democrat primary campaign. Shepherd Fairey has ugly politics.
Good riddance.
Holy smokes. I haven’t seen you post for a coons age.
I’m not supporting or derideing her but this should be required of all elected officials. I commend her on stepping down to run for another office. Kerry,McCain,Biden Kennedy,Edwards on and on.
No one 'purged' KBH (RINO-TX), this was her unilateral decision. Gov. Perry will be able to appoint an interim successor (before the special election) who can oppose 0bama, and hopefully the voters of Texas will send a more conservative replacement for KBH (not a high bar).
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