| After an apparently inaccurate report that Kay Bailey Hutchison has no plans to resign her Senate seat, many other news agencies reported that there were, indeed, still plans. Also reminding us that Senator Hutchison will resign: John Sharp. He even had his own sources.
From an email he sent out last week:
We thought you might be interested in this story that appeared in the Dallas Morning News today. Kay Bailey Hutchison today confirmed she will indeed be resigning her senate seat.
Wayne Slater of the Dallas Morning News wrote this, "An erroneous TV report has caused quite a stir in political circles over whether Kay Bailey Hutchison plans to resign from the Senate. She does. No change. Nothing new to see here. As Hutchison spokeswoman Jen Baker told me yesterday, Hutchison intends to leave the Senate once the fights over federal health care and cap-and-trade environmental policy are settled. That's exactly what Hutchison told the Texas Federation of Women earlier this year. And exactly what she told us earlier this week."
In addition, numerous reports from people close to Senator Hutchison have independently called us to say the Senator will resign "win, lose or draw" right after the March 2, gubernatorial primary. If that happens this special election could happen as early as May.
Yesterday we saw a poll that shows Kay Bailey Hutchison failing to gain on Rick Perry, despite an apparently better debate. Instead, Debra Medina picks off supporters from both of them. That means chaos, and chaos might just increase Kay Bailey Hutchison's ineffectiveness and reasons to resign.
If and when she does resign, John Sharp is still zoned in. National Democrats are worried about a Senate campaign in Massachusetts where their candidate, Martha Coakley, has been criticized for not being zoned in. Texas Democrats the most focused in the country? Perhaps. |
