Lone Star Reversal: Hutchison Will Hold Senate Seat While Battling Perry
EmailABC News’ Teddy Davis reports: In a change of plans, Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, R-Texas, is planning to announce on Saturday that she will hold onto her U.S. Senate seat as she continues to battle Texas Gov. Rick Perry in the March 2010 Republican gubernatorial primary. “Kay Bailey Hutchison is committed to fighting for Texas not only as a candidate for governor but also as a United States senator fighting against ObamaCare and cap-and-trade legislation which will be devastating for the state of Texas. She will not resign her Senate seat until these fights are over,” spokesman Joe Pounder told ABC News. Hutchison is planning to make her official announcement during a Saturday 10:00 am ET speech to the Texas Federation of Republican Women in Galveston, Texas. For the past year, Hutchison has said that she would resign her Senate seat in the fall of 2009 so that she could focus full-time on her gubernatorial campaign. Asked to explain the change of plans, her spokesman attributed it to the health-care battle dragging longer than originally expected. One upside to not resigning her seat is that she can continue to serve in the Senate even if she loses the March 2010 primary to Perry. Hutchison’s Senate seat is not up until 2012. If she wins the Texas GOP’s gubernatorial nomination, she will decide at that time if she wants to stay in the Senate or campaign full time. ABC News' Jacqueline Klingebiel contributed to this report.
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interesting. I think this is due to Perry’s moves recently to solidify the base and to help makeover his record of being mainly a corportate candidate (thus he is sort of denies he wanted foreign-owned NAFTA superhighways, his exclaimations- no matter how joking- about Texas sucession, and his commentary about the most recent Muslim terrorism at Ft.Hood.) So Perry becomes an erstwhile populist of sorts. So the contest between cheerleaders continues (Kay Baby was UT cheerleader and Perry was a cheerleader at A&M- which weirdly has male cheerleaders only). It is good that Senator Hutchison stays in place because the Obama agenda is frightening close to passage, even as he meets with fellow travellers in China. But what about Kinky for governor?? Some real “change” for once?
Posted by: Ed | November 13, 2009, 10:00 pm 10:00 pm
She is where she needs to be.
Posted by: TX_MBell | November 13, 2009, 10:05 pm 10:05 pm
I hope she stomps Perry.
Posted by: CitizenVOTER | November 13, 2009, 10:08 pm 10:08 pm
Seems reasonable enough to me. It’s standard practice for Senators to go for President without resigning. She has always seemed to have a perfectly competent staff so no need for her to
spend all her time in DC reading bills.
Posted by: jhw539 | November 13, 2009, 10:33 pm 10:33 pm
She’s not doing anything in Washington anyway, same with most Republicans. It isn’t that hard to get up in the morning, phone in your NO!, and cut out for a little campaigning in Texas.
Posted by: Rob | November 14, 2009, 11:19 am 11:19 am
You can not serve two bosses at once,Now she is afraid of losing her Senate seat for a governorship. She needs to stay in Washington.
Posted by: strikerF | November 15, 2009, 11:32 am 11:32 am