Kay Bailey Hutchison

Kay Bailey Hutchison as Transportation Secretary? First, Let's Look at Her Trinity Deal.

Ahem. All that I offer is food for thought, food for thought. Something to think about. That's all. A blog published by The Hill, a Washington newspaper, has floated the name of former Texas Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison, whom we here in Texas don't even have to say is a Republican, as a candidate f ... More >>

Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison Leads Republicans In Calling For An "Alternative" Violence Against Women Act

On Wednesday, the U.S. Senate began debating the renewal of the Violence Against Women Act, which is largely backed by Senate Democrats, and discussing its Republican alternative, authored by Chuck Grassley of Iowa and our own Kay Bailey Hutchison. In preparation for that debate, Hutchison took to t ... More >>

Governor Gaffe Comes Back to Texas, Wounded But No Wiser

Wait a minute. Forgive me, but I must misuse and abuse a bit of Dylan Thomas here to suggest we should not let Rick Perry go quite so gentle into that good night. I'm reading a lot of crap about how he bombed in his presidential campaign because he was "ill-prepared" and committed gaffes. It's way ... More >>

Just Remember, Tom Leppert Isn't a Politician

​Janet Mefferd hosts a radio show on The Word, which sits at 100.7 on your FM dial. Per her program's description, she "takes a Christ-centered look at the news and events of the day," and on this day that includes former Dallas Mayor Tom Leppert, who, of course, is vying for Kay Bailey Hutchison' ... More >>

Tom Leppert Gets Virtuous.

Tom Leppert Rediscovers His Virginity

​The Gromer Jeffers story in The Dallas Morning News Saturday reporting that Tom Leppert now opposes federal earmark money for the Trinity River project put me in mind of an old newspaper friend. He had struggled mightily with temptation during his younger married years. I should say, he stru ... More >>

News & Notes: Jenkins Surgery Update, Who Sent Sherbet's Stuff Home and Former Cowboys QB Poised to Swap Senate Teams

Photo by Sam MertenClay Jenkins​What a Week For the New County Judge Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins has been pummeled in the media and political circles for playing Scottie Pippen to Commissioner John Wiley Price's Michael Jordan in the game to push out Elections Administrator Bruce Sherbet ... More >>

Top 10 Schutze Columns of '10

​Nothing slow about us, but just when you thought my third annual list of Schutze's best columns wouldn't take shape, Jim's check finally cleared, so I took the time to look back at his fine work throughout the year and picked out the 10 that made me fall in love with him all over again. As in ... More >>

Easy, Rider: Eddie Bernice Johnson Rewrites History In Interview About Trinity Exemptions

Sam MertenEddie Bernice Johnson, Tom Leppert and Kay Bailey Hutchson talking Trinity at City Hall several months back​We still have the South Dallas News in this town, only now they call it the DallasSouthNews. That's the name of the online publication Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson went to ... More >>

Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson: The Latest In A Long Line Of Pols To Dance To The Mayor's Tune For The Trinity River Project.

Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison Took A Meat-axe To Federal Law To Get The Mayor His Toll Road. But Did She Even Think About The Consequences?

The Trinity River Toll Road Exemptions

​Several Friends of Unfair Park are wondering this morning when Jim's going to weigh in on the news that Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison added to the Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2010 two exemptions that will make it easier for the city to build the Trinity River toll road between the levees, no mat ... More >>

Yes, Indeed, Kay Bailey's Staying in the Senate After All. How ... Shocking?

State Sen. Florence Shapiro​Word is Kay Bailey Hutchison will announce this morning down in San Antonio that she's staying in the Senate -- so say NBC News and The Washington Post, anyhow. Which would explain Mayor Tom Leppert's acknowledgment yesterday that, sure 'nuff, he's mulling a second term ... More >>

Internet Strategist From Washington With Senate Experience Takes Over Leppert's Web Site and We're Supposed to Believe the Mayor's Future is Still "Up in the Air?"

​On Tuesday, we opined that Mayor Tom Leppert's U.S. Senate campaign was moving full steam ahead regardless of whether Kay Bailey Hutchison resigns before her term expires at the end of 2012. Why? The donations to his mayoral campaign completely dried up in the last half of 2009; his annual fu ... More >>

Mayor Leppert's Contributions Dry Up and Then His Big Fund-Raiser Becomes a Charity Event -- What Gives?

Mayor Leppert at last year's "Giraffes, Monkeys and Lepperts" fund-raiser.​For the past two years, Mayor Tom Leppert's annual "Giraffes, Monkeys and Lepperts" event at the Dallas Zoo has served as a birthday bash for the mayor and fund-raiser for Friends of Tom Leppert, a committee formed to p ... More >>

Consultant to Tom Leppert and John Carona Says it's Going to Be "a Long, Painful Process" Waiting for Senator Hutchison's Next Move

John Carona​On Tuesday, state Senator John Carona said he'd "give consideration" to a mayoral run should Tom Leppert vacate office early in pursuit of Kay Bailey Hutchison's U.S. Senate seat. A top Republican in the state and one of several names included among Leppert's potential would-be suc ... More >>

Medina Again Demands Invite to "Race for Governor" Debate; KERA Says, "Hang On."

Debra Medina​On January 14, KERA will broadcast, statewide, a GOP gubernatorial debate beginning at 7 p.m.; it will take place at the Murchison Performing Arts Center on the campus of the University of North Texas in Denton. As you can see from The Texas Debates home page, Rick Perry and Kay Baile ... More >>

So That's Why Governor Rick Perry Jumped On the Tea Party Bandwagon

Danny FulgencioGovernor Rick Perry​For polling purposes, Rasmussen Reports pretended the Tea Party movement organized as a political party and then tossed it into a ménage with the GOP and Dems. On a generic congressional ballot test using the three parties, 23 percent of respondents to a nationa ... More >>

Houston Mayor Bill White is Running for Governor. Unless He Isn't. We Think.

Hutchison on Meet the Press: If Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner's Gotta Go, Then Congress "Shouldn't Keep Our Jobs Either"

NBCHutchison and Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) during the introductions. Could Kay look any more uncomfortable if she tried?​Kay Bailey Hutchison's appearance Sunday on Meet the Press could have been an opportunity to show potential voters why she kept her gig in Washington instead of resign ... More >>

Rick Perry and Kay Bailey Hutchison Are Locked In A Pitched Battle Over The Soul Of The GOP. They Are Also Running For Governor.

Can a Good Democrat Vote for Perry?

Governor Perry Likes the Stimulus Package Now? What Happened to the Tea Party?

Danny FulgencioPerry fields questions from reporters today in Grand Hall at Union Station.The land of opportunity still exists in America, and it's in Texas. At least, that's what Governor Rick Perry told nearly 200 folks gathered this afternoon at Union Station for the Texas Economic Development Su ... More >>

Bringing Home the Bacon: Spokesperson Denies Bill White Will Switch to Governor's Race, and We Didn't Even Have to Ask Once

Sam MertenHouston Mayor Bill White, who won't run for governor, even though he has a hard time saying the words himself.At the conclusion of his poorly attended campaign stop in Plano on Saturday, Houston Mayor Bill White addressed the rumors that he'll take his $6 million in campaign contributions ... More >>

Will Senate Hopeful Bill White Consider Jumping Into the Governor's Race if Kay Bailey Hutchison Keeps Her Seat? We're Still Not Sure, and We Asked Him Four Times.

Photos by Sam MertenHouston Mayor Bill White's speech Saturday afternoon in Plano was, initially, as insipid as the front of the brochures handed out at the door touting his experience as a Sunday school teacher. "I'm here to work for you, and that's about it," White said at the Baker Bros American ... More >>

Things Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison Apparently Hates: Rick Perry, Iran, Iraq, Obama's Health Care Plan and TxDOT

Sam MertenSenator Kay Bailey Hutchison criticized Governor Rick Perry in a speech to the local Republican Jewish Coalition this afternoon, claiming Texas has the country's highest property taxes, an education system with the worst dropout rate in the nation and a government growing faster than the ... More >>

Burka: Mayor Tom Leppert Had a Sitdown with GOP Media Strategists About Senate Seat

Salvation ArmySen. Kay Bailey Hutchison and her would-be replacement? Maybe?​Tuesday morning, Texas Monthly's Paul Burka took note of Schutze's column from July, in which Jim got a no-nuthin' from the mayor and his peoples concerning his interest in running for Kay Bailey Hutchison's could-come-op ... More >>

Former State Republican Party Chairman Tom Pauken Considering Run for Kay Bailey Hutchison's Senate Seat

Hal SamplesTexas Workforce Commission chairman Tom PaukenTexas Workforce Commission chairman and Dallas resident Tom Pauken has informed the offices of Governor Rick Perry and Lieutenant Governor David Dewhurst of his interest in running for U.S. Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison's seat. "I'm taking a ... More >>

At Transportation Summit, Kay Bailey Hutchison Knocks Perry's Roads Record

​Senator and gubernatorial hopeful Kay Bailey Hutchison used her appearance today at the Transportation Summit to establish her cred as someone committed to "a state-of-the-art transportation system" while knocking Rick Perry's support for tollways and the Trans Texas Corridor. Speaking at the Omn ... More >>

Time: It's "Coy" Bailey Hutchison! Haw.

​In the wake of Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison's comments on WBAP yesterday -- you recall, she said she'd quit the Senate in October or November to chase Governor Rick Perry down Congress Avenue -- Time weighs in with a wrap-up that wonders, "Kay Bailey Hutchison is Running for Governor! (Or Is She?)." ... More >>

Kay Bailey Tells Mark Davis She Will Stop Being a Senator in October or November

Sam MertenWhy'd we run this picture of Kay Bailey standing next to Mayor Tom? No reason at all.​Via Swing State Project, we find a link to Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison's interview with WBAP-AM's Mark Davis this morning, in which the senator said she'll officially launch her gubernatorial campaign ... More >>

Kay Bailey Sits Down With Dallas Tea Party to Talk Health Care Reform, 10th Amendment

Kay Bailey Hutchison and members of the Dallas Tea Party met in her office Saturday morning.​I just found on YouTube a few clips in which Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison's talking health care reform with members of the Dallas Tea Party. As it turns out, the senator met with several of their represent ... More >>

Bi-Partisan Inspiration

Hillary Clinton and Kay Bailey Hutchison unite to inspire

Under Pressure: Angela Hunt Sends a Letter to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

Hunt with State Senator Royce West in Washington, D.C., on the eve of the Obama inaugurationUnfair Park today received a missive Angela Hunt sent on Wednesday to General Kenneth Cox, Colonel Christopher Martin and Ray Russo of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, in which the city council member expres ... More >>

Kay Bailey Hutchison's Fellow GOP Senators Begging Her Not to Leave D.C. Just Yet

On Tuesday, Governor Rick Perry told the Associated Press he seriously doubted Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison was going to challenge him come 2010. Because, look, "there's plenty of time for the senator to think that it's not in her best interest, Texas' best interest or the country's best interest to ... More >>

Who'd Be Mayor If Leppert Left Early? And, Why Would Leppert Do It?

Brian Harkin Is Dwaine Caraway positioning himself as Leppert's replacement? While speaking with one of Mayor Tom Leppert's consultants last month, I asked if Leppert was considering running for Kay Bailey Hutchison's senate seat. At that point, I heard he was contemplating the political leap from ... More >>

Peggy Noonan Calls "Bullshit" on McCain for Not Going With Kay Bailey

You're a Mean One, Kay Bailey

Sisters of Peace

Seriously Kinky

This Texas Jewboy wants to be the next governor of Texas, and if you think he's kidding, the joke may be on you

Sacramental Beer

Plus: Backhanded Apology

Take a Hike

DADA says art is fun

Kiss and Makeup

Lone Star politicians work together

Slicing the pie

Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison switches to the side of the angels in Texas' tobacco battle

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Striving for mediocrity at the Fort Worth Star-Telegram

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