Texas' other senator, John Cornyn -- the one who isn't running for governor or, as far as we know, contemplating the best timing to quit or not quit the Senate -- is happy that colleague Kay Bailey Hutchison isn't quitting,...
Gromer Jeffers Jr. just broke the news that Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison has flip-flopped on her publicly announced timetable for resigning from the Senate. She won't quit by the end of this month as she said in July. In fact,...
One of the favorite pastimes for the Perry camp has been to tweak Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison over her game of will-she/won't-she quit the Senate and when-might-that-happen. Well, Gov. Rick Perry knows how to play his cards close, too. Today,...
The tug of war continues over cell phones in prison. Late Monday, Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison was crowing after the Senate voted to allow prisons to jam cell phone transmissions. A year ago, a Texas death row inmate made threatening...
Houston yesterday, Washington today. This afternoon, Gov. Rick Perry called it "crazy" for the state's senior senator to force him into a costly fight that will only sap Republican resources. That, he says, will only end up hurting state House...
The U.S. Senate just passed the annual transportation spending bill on a 75-24 vote. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison voted for it, and her staff quickly touted a provision she inserted that would prevent states from collecting tolls on federally-funded highways...
The Hutchison campaign is circulating this photo, which appeared last October on the liberal Huffington Post as part of a story tying Sen. John McCain and other prominent Republican leaders to ACORN, a group that Republicans were trying hard...
How's this for loaded language. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison is insinuating that Gov. Rick Perry is a bully. It's not the first time she's used that term, either, suggesting that it has been poll tested or focus-grouped. There are double...
More from the Perry campaign on Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison's missed vote last night. The governor's spokesman, Mark Miner, is taunting her for attending a fund-raiser in Dallas rather than tending to Senate business - in this case, the vote...
Kay Bailey Hutchison continues to keep her own counsel about the timing of her resignation from the U.S. Senate. Her chief campaign spokeswoman, Jennifer Baker, says the senator's statement July 29 to conservative radio host Mark Davis remains operative: "The...
House Speaker Joe Straus has warned that an increasingly nasty GOP gubernatorial primary contest between incumbent Rick Perry and U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison could hurt Republicans, fuel partisan passions and make it harder to close a state budget shortfall...
Like any good campaign, the Hutchison-Perry race will play out on many fronts. The two campaigns are both up with new videos as things kick into higher gear with Hutchison's announcement tour today. First, the Perry campaign weighed in with...
The claim: "Our state unemployment rate is already higher than any of our neighboring states -- Oklahoma, Louisiana, New Mexico and Arkansas," Hutchison's campaign Web site says. "So much for Texas being better off than anywhere else." The facts: At...
The claim: "Perry has led the fight for better schools, signing into law a $2,000 pay raise for teachers and the country's largest performance pay program," the governor's Web site says. "He ordered schools to spend 65 percent of tax...
The claim: "Texans are safer because ... Perry ordered an aggressive border security initiative that is putting more boots on the ground, more helicopters in the sky, and more resources into the hands of border law officers who are on...
The claim: Perry rejected $555 million in federal money for unemployment benefits because the expansion "would have mandated the state of Texas to pay costlier benefits and put higher taxes on Texas employers indefinitely," Perry wrote in an Austin American-Statesman...
The claim: "Texas has the highest high school dropout rate in the country," Hutchison writes in a campaign fundraising letter. The facts: According to the U.S. Department of Education's National Center for Education Statistics, Texas has the 16th highest high...
The claim: Perry "refused to raise taxes when Texas faced a record $10 billion budget shortfall in 2003," his campaign Web site says. "Instead, he became the first governor since World War II to sign a budget that lowered state...
It's Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison's birthday. The state's senior senator and - if she has her way, its next governor - was born 66 years ago today in Galveston. A bit of trivia: if she wins the governors race,...
Tucked inside the Kay for Governor email from campaign manager Rick Wiley, apart from her fund-raising tally, is a hint about the senator's timing. "Kay will formally announce her candidacy in August..."...
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