KBH Offered Senate Leadership Position?
By Byron LaMasters
The Houston Chronicle speculates:
The guessing game over U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison's possible run for Texas governor took a new twist Tuesday when a high-ranking Republican colleague said she could get a big promotion if she stayed in the Senate.
Hutchison, however, has promised that her six-year Senate term, which ends with 2006, will be her last.
She has been openly considering running instead against Gov. Rick Perry in 2006.
Tuesday's unexpected comments came from Senate Majority Whip Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, whom Hutchison had invited to address a women's leadership conference she hosted in a Washington hotel.
McConnell said Hutchison likely would be offered the Senate GOP's No. 3 spot, chair of the Senate Republican Conference, a position now held by Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum, if she remains in Washington.
These KBH rumors are getting a bit silly. What's next? Will she be offered a spot on the 2008 Presidential ticket if she does not run for governor?
More at Off the Kuff and Rick Perry vs. the World.
Posted by Byron LaMasters at May 18, 2005 07:42 PM
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So what gives? Either someone owes Rick a favor, (remember that picture of the guy in the cowboy hat in front of the capital and his sign?) or someone does not want that seat left open. I'm not sure which, what do you guys think?
