Texas' Hutchison voting against Sotomayor

Yahoo News ^ | July 29, 2009

[Clintonfatigued]

Republican Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison says she will vote against confirming Sonia Sotomayor to be a Supreme Court justice.

She said Tuesday she is concerned about Sotomayor's views on the Second Amendment on the right to bear arms. Hutchison is from Texas, where the population is more than a third Hispanic.

[SeeSharp]

I didn’t say I like her. I just don’t think she deserves the label RINO. She’s no Jesse Helms but she no Lindsey Graham either.

[deport]

Just for the record regarding Hutchison. She voted against Sotomayor's confirmation back on Oct. 2, 1998. So her upcoming vote will be the same.

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U.S. Senate Roll Call Votes 105^th Congress - 2^nd Session

as compiled through Senate LIS by the Senate Bill Clerk under the direction of the Secretary of the Senate

Vote Summary

Question: On the Nomination (Nomination: Sonia Sotomayor to be U.S.Circuit Judge, 2nd Circuit )
Vote Number:	295	Vote Date:	October 2, 1998, 10:35 AM
Required For Majority:	1/2	Vote Result:	Nomination Confirmed
Nomination Number:	PN402
Nomination Description:	Sonia Sotomayor, of New York, to be United States Circuit Judge for the Second Circuit

Vote Counts:	YEAs	67
	NAYs	29
	Not Voting	4

YEAs ---67
Akaka (D-HI) Baucus (D-MT) Bennett (R-UT) Biden (D-DE) Bingaman (D-NM) Boxer (D-CA) Breaux (D-LA) Bryan (D-NV) Bumpers (D-AR) Byrd (D-WV) Campbell (R-CO) Chafee (R-RI) Cleland (D-GA) Coats (R-IN) Cochran (R-MS) Collins (R-ME) Conrad (D-ND) D'Amato (R-NY) Daschle (D-SD) DeWine (R-OH) Dodd (D-CT) Domenici (R-NM) Dorgan (D-ND)	Durbin (D-IL) Feingold (D-WI) Feinstein (D-CA) Ford (D-KY) Frist (R-TN) Graham (D-FL) Grams (R-MN) Gregg (R-NH) Harkin (D-IA) Hatch (R-UT) Helms (R-NC) Inouye (D-HI) Jeffords (R-VT) Johnson (D-SD) Kennedy (D-MA) Kerrey (D-NE) Kerry (D-MA) Kohl (D-WI) Landrieu (D-LA) Lautenberg (D-NJ) Leahy (D-VT) Levin (D-MI) Lieberman (D-CT)	Lugar (R-IN) Mack (R-FL) Mikulski (D-MD) Moynihan (D-NY) Murkowski (R-AK) Murray (D-WA) Reed (D-RI) Reid (D-NV) Robb (D-VA) Rockefeller (D-WV) Roth (R-DE) Santorum (R-PA) Sarbanes (D-MD) Smith (R-OR) Snowe (R-ME) Specter (R-PA) Stevens (R-AK) Torricelli (D-NJ) Warner (R-VA) Wellstone (D-MN) Wyden (D-OR)

NAYs ---29
Abraham (R-MI) Allard (R-CO) Ashcroft (R-MO) Brownback (R-KS) Burns (R-MT) Coverdell (R-GA) Craig (R-ID) Enzi (R-WY) Faircloth (R-NC) Gorton (R-WA)	Gramm (R-TX) Grassley (R-IA) Hagel (R-NE) Hutchinson (R-AR) Hutchison (R-TX) Inhofe (R-OK) Kempthorne (R-ID) Kyl (R-AZ) Lott (R-MS) McCain (R-AZ)	McConnell (R-KY) Nickles (R-OK) Roberts (R-KS) Sessions (R-AL) Shelby (R-AL) Smith (R-NH) Thomas (R-WY) Thompson (R-TN) Thurmond (R-SC)

Not Voting - 4
Bond (R-MO) Glenn (D-OH)	Hollings (D-SC) Moseley-Braun (D-IL)

[Clintonfatigued]

Interesting that one of the “no” votes was cast by John McCain.

[Texas Songwriter]

Gov.Perry wants to seceed. It is someting to discuss. Hutchinson is voting against Sotomayor because she is running for govenor.

[ansel12]

When even someone as left wing as Erbe is singing your praises for being a rino then you have a problem.

[beancounter13]

Gov. “I can’t look a girl in the eye” Perry doesn’t want to secede. He is only trying to keep his political life relevant in case he might decide to run for the POTUS one day.

He may talk like he’s a right-winger, but a true conservative would not have tried the end-run he used just to cozy up to his buddies at Merck.

I’m still voting for KBH in the primary. I cannot think of anything she has done that is worse that those deeds done by Perry.

[dervish]

I always thought she would have been a good choice for McCain’s VP.

[Richard Kimball]

Bingo.

[dervish]

Interesting. Jesse Helms voted for her.

[SunkenCiv]

Wonder what the Demwit vote against nominees has been in the past?

[Clintonfatigued]

Lindsey Graham thought that he would lead a RINO stampede, but it hasn’t worked out as he hoped.

[dusttoyou]

I “MAY” be holding my nose and voting for Perry in the governor's race; but Hutchinson isn't a RINO. Didn't like Perry's “toll roads” mania. Did like his “mention” of Right to secede and recent 10th Amendment stands. TEXGOV campaign and Primary may be enlightening.

For the most part KBH has voted fairly conservative.

[MeekOneGOP]

Ted Nugent!

Now THERE’S a Patriot !! :^D

Who WOULDN’T vote for him !?!?!

[MeekOneGOP]

Hutchison gets an 89.38 Lifetime rating from the ACU:

http://www.acuratings.org/2008all.htm#TX

Which doesn’t make her a RINO.

But she has the personality and likeability of a
wet dishrag, imho. :)

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MY favorite is Sam Johnson, with a 98.04 Lifetime
rating. He is a REAL American, imho. (And he is
MY Rep, too!). :)

[Dawgreg]

Heee Hawww........RUN TED RUN.......LOL

[SaraJohnson]

Kay is voting against the sistahood? Is she running for something?/s/