Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison to Step Down

[MaineDem]

Source: Washington Post

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.

Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/29/AR2009072902398.html

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She'll challenge Perry for Governor next spring.

[Xipe Totec]

1. Is everybody in a red business suit doing a Palin?

[UpInArms]

4. I do believe that those 3 women

make me nauseous

:puke:

[Historic NY]

17. #3 is the WORST...GUANO CRUDELLA

[WCGreen]

23. And even the new rack didn't help her....

You do realize if that was had been a male SOS back in 2000, he would have been greatly rewarded...

But since most of the GOP still considers women as glorified secretaries, she was kisked off the bus...

[JuniperLea]

9. Why, Xipe Totec? Why?

I just ate some lovely grapes... I fear they are coming back for a visit!

:puke:

[Xipe Totec]

13. Mine just retracted into my body cavity

:rofl:

[JuniperLea]

14. *snort*

:rofl:

[varelse]

19. We need the DUzy awards back

like right f'n NOW.

[XemaSab]

10. Put up a warning on this post!

x(

[Olney Blue]

18. Red is the new hack, I mean black.

[MadMaddie]

22. Dammit you didn't warn about the last picture....blech!

:puke:

[MrMickeysMom]

27. I was gonna party till I puked...

Too late!

:puke:

[givemebackmycountry]

32. OMG...

If that isn't a freeper four way fantasy, I don't know what is.
I suspect Freepers will be very quiet the next few days, as their fevered brains process THAT picture.



:rofl:

[DAMANgoldberg]

34. Left Field...

ex-Gov Sarah Palin moves out of Alaska, so she can do the book deal, TV show, etc. My guess is that she moves to Texas, more than likely Dallas, to avoid income taxes on her cash, better weather, and could be a player in Texas politics. She may try to channel the spirit (not the policies or spunk of) of Ann Richards. After all, there is a Senate seat that will be open and it will be an R.

[kjackson227]

37. We've got enough "ish" here in Dallas, already. We don't need anymore :(

[SoCalDem]

35. Nancy Reagan kind of started the trend.. In fact the whole red-v-blue thing

used to be different. Our media changed the colors, more than a few times:)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_states_and_blue_states

[madokie]

2. Isn't she planning to run for the governors job

I seem to remember reading that a few days ago anyway.

[MaineDem]

6. Yes, against Perry in the primary. n/t

[marshall]

21. What happened to her two young children?

Maybe she's quitting to spend more time with them?

[stevedeshazer]

28. Young children?

She's 66. That ship has sailed.

[marshall]

36. She and her husband adopted two infants in 2001

She is the model of a moderate pro-lifer--she supports the freedom to choose (and does not believe Roe should be overturned) but she strongly advocates support of adoption and other avenues that help support alternative choices.

And at least in this instance she practices what she preaches. The next time a radical pro-lifer gets in your face, ask them how many children they have adopted.

[stevedeshazer]

38. Thanks. I had no idea.

[struggle4progress]

30. Quitter that she is, why doesn't she run for governor of Alaska?

[JayMusgrove]

40. That makes sense. n/t

[liberal N proud]

3. Another republican bites the dust

[rollingrock]

5. Easy way of avoiding prosecution and jail time/ nt

[sam sarrha]

11. yea, they dont sign their Oath of Office.. that way when they commit a crime they resign and no one

will pursue a misdemeanor charge of impersonating a Senator, judge..etc.

newt was up for at least 4 felonies, stealin'n the Poor Black Kids Collage fund money to film an produce extremist Nazi propaganda lectures at a collage that wont let black kids in.. he was facing 15 years a charge.. re agreed to stay off the media for a few years and went TOTALLY FREE OF CHARGES.

[pinb1212]

25. Link Please

I wanna read about that!!

[sam sarrha]

29. i knew activists suing crooked judges over that years ago... i researched it in Nevada when i got

scammed by the public safety dept for $600, its a con job.. no one on the board signed theirs, i checked, i talked to the attorney general about it they said they didn't sign theirs.. no problem.

its hard to find an article on it,.. but they never get prosecuted except in very very rarely , and that seems to be federal charges .. gingrich should be doing life now, .

[clspector]

12. She's going to make a run at Rick Perry...

who is even dumber and un-curious than Dubya and just as venal. Christ, he's an epic asshat. And no, it's unlike we can get a Dem elected this time around. We had the wonderful Chris Bell run last time, and couldn't get him elected. Balls.

[NYC Democrat]

15. last time there was a 4 way race I think Bell might have won in a 2 way or at least made it close.

[clspector]

16. Yes,

I think Bell would have done well against Perry -- had Texas a fricking run-off. Man, I like Chris Bell.

[Ken Burch]

26. Would it be worth getting Jim Hightower to run?

n/t.

[TheWraith]

7. Who do we have to run in the special? nt

[National Steel 27]

8. I would like to see David Van Os.

Texans would benefit greatly by having David in the Senate.

But anyone is better than Kay Bailey Forehead, ex Longhorn Cheerleader.

[PDittie]

20. Bill White and John Sharp

Nice, solid Blue Dogs :puke:

[Ken Burch]

24. Is there ANY chance we can pick this seat up?

You'd think Perry's pig-headedness on healthcare would give us a shot.

[Nevernose]

33. Yes, there's a small but realistic chance

It depends on who the candidates are, of course, but a senate race is across the whole state -- no gerrymandering possible. Currently, the Texas House is at 76 Republicans and 74 Democrats. Of course, the Democrat we get from Texas won't be like the Democrat we get from Minnesota (Franken!), but it'll be a damned sight better than Kay Hutchison.

[burning rain]

31. Maybe she doesn't care to be in the Senate as part of the minority....

especially now that Republicans look set to remain the minority for a long while?

[Wednesdays]

39. K&R

:kick:

[susanr516]

41. We knew KBH would be resigning

We just didn't know when. She's better than Rick Perry. Of course, I can't think of anyone worse than Perry.