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Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison to Step Down
The Washington Post ^ | July 29, 2009 | Chris Cillizza

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....

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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.)

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: 111th; congress; gopprimary; kaybaileyhutchinson; resignation; rickperry; texas; tx2010
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Well, I don't live in Texas, but yay! One RINO down, a gadzillion more to go. Oh, and about her gubernatorial bid - I hope she fails.
1 posted on 07/29/2009 1:39:56 PM PDT by Baladas
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To: Baladas

Don’t let the door hit ya where the Good Lord split ya!


2 posted on 07/29/2009 1:41:38 PM PDT by Las Vegas Ron (Move over NetZero - Obama's in the house!)
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To: 1riot1ranger; Action-America; Aggie Mama; Alkhin; Allegra; American72; antivenom; Antoninus II; ...

BUMP


3 posted on 07/29/2009 1:42:10 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (There is no truth in the Pravda Media.)
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Setting the stage for Bill White(D) to return to Washington DC.


4 posted on 07/29/2009 1:42:49 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (There is no truth in the Pravda Media.)
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To: Baladas
"I hope she fails." Chances are good she will.My husband is from TX and has a lot of relatives and friends.We will do all possible to help her fail.

She has never seemed very bright to me.

vaudine

5 posted on 07/29/2009 1:43:49 PM PDT by vaudine
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To: Baladas
Sen. Kay Bailey Hyphenated (RINO-Texas) is a joke!
6 posted on 07/29/2009 1:44:20 PM PDT by HuntsvilleTxVeteran ((B.?) Hussein (Obama?Soetoro?Dunham?) Change America Will Die From.)
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To: Baladas

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.)


7 posted on 07/29/2009 1:45:16 PM PDT by earlJam
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To: vaudine

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.”


8 posted on 07/29/2009 1:45:20 PM PDT by Blogger
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To: Baladas

Will the MSM 24/7 mock her as a “quitter”?


9 posted on 07/29/2009 1:45:50 PM PDT by SolidWood (Sarah Palin: "Only dead fish go with the flow!")
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To: Baladas

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.


10 posted on 07/29/2009 1:46:24 PM PDT by devane617 (Republicans first strategy should be taking over the MSM. Without it we are doomed.)
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To: HuntsvilleTxVeteran

wow, why all the Hutchinson hate?

did I miss something? I thought she has been fairly conservative in her voting, maybe I missed something...


11 posted on 07/29/2009 1:48:08 PM PDT by TexasFreeper2009 (Obama lied, the economy died)
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To: earlJam

RINOs support Obama so what are you talking about?


12 posted on 07/29/2009 1:49:28 PM PDT by DManA
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To: Baladas

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.


13 posted on 07/29/2009 1:50:09 PM PDT by Joe Boucher
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To: Baladas

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.


14 posted on 07/29/2009 1:50:16 PM PDT by 353FMG (Death is Life without Freedom.)
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To: Baladas

Why? Sick? Scandal? What?


15 posted on 07/29/2009 1:50:21 PM PDT by DManA
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To: devane617

Kinky Friedman’s team has hired the same propagandist to make some posters for his Democrat primary campaign. Shepherd Fairey has ugly politics.


16 posted on 07/29/2009 1:52:09 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (There is no truth in the Pravda Media.)
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To: Baladas

Good riddance.


17 posted on 07/29/2009 1:52:09 PM PDT by pissant (THE Conservative party: www.falconparty.com)
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To: HuntsvilleTxVeteran

Holy smokes. I haven’t seen you post for a coons age.


18 posted on 07/29/2009 1:52:55 PM PDT by pissant (THE Conservative party: www.falconparty.com)
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To: Baladas

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.


19 posted on 07/29/2009 1:52:59 PM PDT by Lurkina.n.Learnin
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To: earlJam
if we purge all of the RINOs out of the party ...

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).

20 posted on 07/29/2009 1:54:29 PM PDT by Servant of the Cross (the Truth will set you free)
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