Two weeks ago J.B. Poersch, executive director of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, traveled to Texas to gage the strength of the Democratic effort to win the Senate seat expected to be vacated by Kay Bailey Hutchison. Poersch had separate...
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich has endorsed Railroad Commission Chairman Michael Williams for Senate. "We need conservatives willing to engage the Democrats on the field of ideas...willing to speak of a 21st Century conservatism...willing to stand and fight on...
Railroad Commission Chairman Michael Williams said today he was actively seeking the appointment to the Senate seat now held by Kay Bailey Hutchison. Hutchison told me Monday that she'll probably resign at some point after Oct. 1, which would create...
Kay Bailey Hutchison's announcement that she will leave the Senate in October or November kicks into high gear speculation about how she'll be replaced, and by whom. First things first: The governor must appoint a replacement when she leaves office....
Texas Railroad Commissioner Michael Williams has joined a growing cast of thousands seeking the U.S. Senate. Williams announced today he wants to succeed Kay Bailey Hutchison when she resigns -- if she resigns. Or, even she does doesn't resign, when...
Republicans rolled out an array of African-American and Hispanic speakers at their convention on Wednesday night to assail Barack Obama's economics and call for the election of John McCain. They included Texas Railroad Commissioner Michael Williams, one of the highest-ranking...
SPOTTED BACKSTAGE at the REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION Texas Railroad Commissioner Michael Williams, being shown the ropes for Wednesday night's speech with his wife and staff. He wasn't nervous, he said - but he did ask to practice walking out onto...
Texas' senior senator, Kay Bailey Hutchison, was scheduled to speak at the Republican convention tonight, and she arrived in St. Paul last night in anticipation of that. But McCain campaign manager Rick Davis just ran through the updated program...
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