Texas Senator Hutchison Won't Run for Re-Election

Source: NYT/AP

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: October 16, 2007

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Republican Kay Bailey Hutchison will not seek re-election after her current Senate term and may leave before her term ends in 2012 to run for Texas governor, a spokesman for the senator says.

Hutchison, now in her third full term in the Senate, told Texas Monthly magazine that stepping down in two years ''has to be considered.'' Her comments were confirmed by spokesman Matt Mackowiak.

''Is it better for Texas for me to leave early and give someone else a chance to start building seniority before the class of 2013? I think it probably is,'' Hutchison said. Excerpts of the interview were posted Monday on the magazine's ''State of Mine'' feature written by editor Evan Smith.

Hutchison said she has not yet made a decision as to whether to run for the governorship....

Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-Hutchison-Re-election.html

A Republicker leaving office... seems only to happen when a major sex scandal hits the media. Is it an affair with a 15 year old page? Picking up lesbian prostitutes? Covered up drug convictions coming to light? What? Inquiring minds want to know!

about what they've done to this country's economy becomes fully known.

I'm convinced of it. They all want to sink into obscurity as elder statesmen and live off their fat pensions while a current Congress takes the heat when the bills all come due.

The bills are coming due, by the way. The mortgage mess is just the first delivery.

She's never liked the Senate and wasn't too enthusiastic about running again. She really wants to be Governor.

I'd much prefer to see her in the private sector.

VP candidate in 08.

it's too bad she is considering a gubernatorial run.

Another rethug out of the Senate. She thinks she might be able to be Governor? We'll see.

Barf. "Senator Perry" is the most nightmarish phrase I've run across since a poster here made me realize that "Chief Justice Cheney" could become a reality in the age of the nuclear option.

Too bad for Texas.

Does she stand a chance for Governor?

:puke:

Being unintelligent and corrupt has now become the standard, thanks to the Shrub

...Rick Perry, who makes Bush look simply Phi Beta Kappa, will do the appointing of the replacement. Worse still the Texas Democratic Party has about as much political talent available as a West Texas rancher has water.

No the USof A will have to muddle along without any help from the 'Great State of Texas'. Only real concern others should have is the correctness of the following: After LBJ and GWB America may not be able to survive another president from Texas!

LBJ for all his faults, was one of the most liberal Presidents this country has seen. Without his legislative finesse we would not have: Head Start, Civil Rights Act, Medicade, and many of the programs that lift up the needy. Granted-he expanded the Viet Nam war-but unlike Bush-the war really wore heavily on him. He took troop deaths to heart. Bush doesn't give a rat's ass.

And Bush wasn't from Texas so I don't count him (Eisenhower was born in Texas though).

into law as well as the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act.

He was also responsible for the Endangered Species Act.Although it was signed into law by Nixon, it was initially an executive directive from LBJ to his Secretary of the Interior,Morris Udall. An executive directive that benefits rather than harms the environment. Those were the days.

in Southeast Asia.

As your remark further validates.

LBJ did what was politically expedient. He claimed to be a liberal when he was with liberals and a conservative around conservatives. He was mostly self-serving. I am not saying he didn't do a lot of good but he was certainly one of the biggest assholes ever to hold public office. Look how he treated Sam Rayburn. He basically betrayed his mentor.

I think the title of 'biggest assholes ever to hold public office' now firmly resides with George Bush. LBJ knew how to cut a deal and how to deal with folks. He kept his friends close and his enemies closer. I think there were things he genuinely cared for just as there were thing he did to cut a deal. I am certain that he was affected by poverty and unfairness-so I give him the benefit of the doubt on some things.

nt

Perry won't be appointing anybody.

''Is it better for Texas for me to leave early and give someone else a chance to start building seniority before the class of 2013? I think it probably is,''

I just made myself throw up a little bit in my mouth.

I guess her kneepads wore out. Yeah, I'm from texas, I know of what I speak.

Do what you want to Texas, just leave the rest of us alone!

It's simply amazing how many of the cockroaches are scurrying away ...

Bake

running for gov. She did enough damage in DC, we sure don't need her screwing
Tx up any more than it already is.
She will definitely quit the Senate and let perry appoint
the next anointed one. If he could, perry would probably appoint himself.
Not sure who is next in line.
I only know it won't be good for the people.

Bush, Perry, and then her??? :scared:

At least she has been more pro-choice than those two. No telling what other mess she could make, though.

Source: AP

Republican Kay Bailey Hutchison will not seek re-election after her current Senate term and may leave before her term ends in 2012 to run for Texas governor, a spokesman for the senator says.

Hutchison, now in her third full term in the Senate, told Texas Monthly magazine that stepping down in two years "has to be considered." Her comments were confirmed by spokesman Matt Mackowiak.

"Is it better for Texas for me to leave early and give someone else a chance to start building seniority before the class of 2013? I think it probably is," Hutchison said. Excerpts of the interview were posted Monday on the magazine's "State of Mine" feature written by editor Evan Smith.

Hutchison said she has not yet made a decision as to whether to run for the governorship.

"It's too early to be gearing up. I don't want to peak in 2007 for a 2010 race. Would I like to do it? Yes. A lot of things have to happen to make it a reality. You can't plan that far ahead with certainty," she said.



Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/10/16/hutchinson.re-election.ap/index.html

And this is in Texas, no less!

I'm thinking no run for Governor, either!

on your way out, Kay Bailey.

Good riddance.

asshat Perry appoint another Senator to run as an incumbent. Other than that, good riddance. Don't go away mad, Kay....well, come to think of it...I don't care how you go, just so you go. Bye. Glad to be rid of you.

Give it time for some scandal to come out to explain this uncharacteristic turning over of power.

J

Time to try that once again, this time without Rove and DeLay!

:woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo:

Source: NYT

Texas Senator Doesn’t Plan to Seek Re-election
By MAUREEN BALLEZA
Published: October 17, 2007



HOUSTON, Oct. 16 — Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison does not intend to seek re-election when her term expires in 2012 and may step down as early as 2009, possibly to run for governor, she says in an interview with Texas Monthly.

“Well, I have been talking to people quietly about what I hope I can do, what I’d like to be able to do,” Ms. Hutchison told the magazine, according to excerpts posted on the magazine’s Web site. “I haven’t made a commitment in any way because it’s just too early — it’s too early to be gearing up. I don’t want to peak in 2007 for a 2010 race.”

Matt Mackowiak, a spokesman for Ms. Hutchison, a Republican in her third full term in the Senate, confirmed the accuracy of the excerpts from the interview, to be published in December.

A professor of political science at the University of Texas, Austin, Bruce Buchanan, said: “I think she’s always wanted to come back to Texas.

She would rather be governor of Texas, and chief executive officer of the state, rather than one of a hundred.”



Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/17/us/17kay.html?ref=us

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Another Republican bowing out. Hastert, Warner, Hutchinson. I wonder how many more there will be?

Whew.

And get something that looks halfway LESS fake. I guess she's too lazy to go to the hairdresser, or maybe she's pulled all her hair out.....but damn, don't sit for pictures with a fucking squirrel atop your head!!!!

Yet another one who can't bear being in the minority, I guess...

no doubt without bush a lot of her motivation for whoring is gone too

Easier job, she can stay in Texas, and have her kids running around the Governor's mansion.

I don't think Texas is ready to elect a democratic governor, although I think Houston's Mayor Bill White would have a decent chance. He's very popular. I wish he would run for governor.

into a pickup? Seems VERY far-fetched, but one can hope.