| Remember reading yesterday about John Cornyn punching at a reporter/blogger's camera? Well, something must have been in our Senators' water yesterday, because Senator Hutchison had a problem with a reporter, too. In some ways, her story falls farther than Cornyn's.
Mike Stark, some may say, blindsided Senator Cornyn to ask him a question. Kay Bailey Hutchison, however, abruptly stalled the journalistic process when she received a question from a reporter she called upon. That reporter, the Dallas Morning News' Todd J. Gillman, relates the story:
Then Hutchison posed for some pictures, and stepped over to a scrum of a dozen or so reporters to take more questions. One asked about net neutrality, a rather complex issue of special to Texas-based AT&T. Hutchison turned to me for the next topic. She really did seem open to taking more questions.
I offered a toss-away to the effect that she has already said she'll leave the Senate soon, any hints yet about timing. No she said. Then, apparently, I crossed a line. Basically, I asked why she feels a need to stay in the Senate while running for governor.
GILLMAN: "Do you have some qualms that a replacement for you will not have essentially the same positions on important issues, to Texas, like cap and trade, like net neutrality, for instance?"
HUTCHISON: "Ok, thank you."
And then, dear readers, she turned abruptly and walked away, leaving a gaggle of journalists dumbstruck.
We had a problem with Senator Cornyn about a crummy policy position he conveyed in his vote. In this anecdote, however, there are no such legislative disputes we have with Kay Bailey Hutchison, but we see a problem here that was prevalent with both our state's Senators in D.C.
Kay Bailey Hutchison and John Cornyn each deliberately ignored and impeded the journalistic process. We deserve better from our U.S. Senators. |
