Kay Bailey Hutchison just announced her half-year fundraising numbers. Gromer Jeffers Jr. has the details here....
In a way, the two Texas GOP rivals for governor saw the Alaskan governor's resignation announcement as something good for them. For Rick Perry, Sarah Palin -- who worked with him in the Republican Governor's Association -- already has endorsed...
Here's a story I just posted on Tyler Republican Rep. Leo Berman's recent discussions with the Rick Perry campaign about abandoning a long-shot, anti-immigration bid for governor. Berman (at right, in photo of voter ID bill hearing) says he expects...
I'm trying to figure out what difference it will make when Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison formally announced that she is running for governor. It's not as though there is any mystery. And if she and Gov. Rick Perry are pulling...
Texas' junior senator, John Cornyn, is offering some fresh speculation on the potential timing of colleague Kay Bailey Hutchison's resignation from the Senate. "My guess is she goes back this fall," he told Texas reporters this afternoon over coffee at...
As Wayne Slater predicted last week, Tom Schieffer, George W. Bush's former partner in running the Texas Rangers and an ambassador in the Bush administration, is expected to announce today that he's forming an exploratory committee to run for Texas...
In Austin today, Kay Bailey Hutchison offered up her view of the economic stimulus package on the table in Washington: It's too bloated, but if it passes, Texas has to take the money. Of course, the politics of this are...
Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison just appeared on "Huckabee" - Fox News' talk show with former Arkansas governor and GOP presidential candidate Mike Huckabee. Lots of softballs/platitudes er, Q&A about the stimulus package (Are you worried about the cost? "A trillion...
The presidential race? That was soooo last Tuesday. Talk around Austin today is turning to the governor's race. Rick Perry, who has been governor nearly forever, wants to make it longer and already has said that he would seek a...