| Kay Bailey Hutchison's announcement this morning that she will remain in the U.S. Senate may not have surprised many, but it still has to be disappointing for Democratic U.S. Senate candidate John Sharp. “I certainly enjoyed visiting with Texans for the last year and a half and learning about their concerns as we waited for Kay Bailey Hutchison to resign. I hope she’s learned what I’ve learned from this experience which is people are sick and tired of business as usual and the bitter partisanship of Washington DC . It is time to put the country ahead of both political parties.”
Sharp, along with then Senate candidate Bill White, announced their intentions to run for the Senate in December 2008, when some viewed Hutchison's resignation as imminent. Sharp has said previously he would run for Senate even if the election was in 2012, when Hutchison's current term will expire. Hutchison's indecisiveness effectively forced Sharp to sit out this political cycle. The perceived advantages Sharp would have brought to a special elecion (high name ID and an ability to self-financed his campaign in a short time window) may not exist in a 2012 general election, however. |
