| Multiple sources this morning are reporting that Kay Bailey Hutchison will serve the remaining term in the Senate. As David reported below, she will be having a press conference in less than an hour to officially announce her decision. It has also been reported that State Senator Florence Shapiro, who had lined herself up to run as a replacement to Hutchison, will be returning $1 million to donors today. Kay's announcement is no real surprise. Those of us here at BOR, and many Democrats across Texas, never expected she would leave the Senate -- her continued dodging (and changing) of the answer to that question was unfair to Texas voters, but Hutchison is going to do what's in her best interest. After the months of divisiveness and petty politics between Rick and Kay, I'm not shocked that she doesn't want to let Perry appoint a successor for her seat. Harold Cook, over at Letters from Texas, weighs in well with his post: "Delusions of relevance": What remains is to see whether she will go forward from this point and shoot straight with Texas voters. During her failed primary election, she leveled charge after charge at Rick Perry. Will she now take all that back too, cynically supporting the man she accurately described as a failed governor...or will she pretend for partisan purposes that the last 14 months never happened, and support the man she said all along wasn't good for Texas? |
