Kay Bailey Hutchison will resign seat to run for Governor of Texas.

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  July 29th at 10:45 PM  | 

I find some of the rhetoric going on between Senator Hutchison and Governor Perry to be already a bit harsh, so here are the bare bones of the story: Hutchison told WBAP-AM (820) host Mark Davis that she would officially kick-off her campaign in August. “Formal announcement: I am in. Then the actual leaving of the Senate will be sometime — October, November — that, | Read More »

So we give Michael Williams a few months of incumbency as Senator.

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  May 15th at 10:00 AM  | 

Sen. John Cornyn is worried that Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison is going to retire early this fall to run for Governor, but I’m missing the problem here (via Political Wire): “My guess,” he told Texas reporters at his Senate office today, is that Hutchison will resign “this fall sometime.” That would allow Perry to appoint an interim senator and allow a special election to take | Read More »