Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison Will Not Quit Senate
November 14, 2009
by Contributor
|The opinions expressed herein are those of the author, and not necessarily those of The New Agenda.
Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison has announced that she will not leave her Senate seat until after the Texas Republican primary. According to the Dallas Morning News,
The announcement came as a new poll said 60 percent of likely Republican primary voters wanted Hutchison to remain in the Senate while running for governor. The poll was the second in two weeks showing Perry with a double-digit lead.
At private meetings in recent weeks, Hutchison has asked her Republican financial supporters whether she should stay in office or quit to run full time against Perry. The response has been overwhelming for her to stay, according to those familiar with the meetings.
The Texas Republican primary race for Governor has gotten increasingly heated over claims by her opponent, current Governor Rick Perry, that Hutchison has missed too many votes in Washington and is out of touch with Texas and local issues. Governor Perry said Friday,
“I hope the senator will do her job we elected her to do. That’s pretty full time, but that’s her call,” Perry said. “Most Texans I talk to think she needs to stay up there and do the job she was elected to.”
Defenders of Hutchison’s strategy included State Rep. Dan Branch, R-Dallas, who has firmly dismissed questions about whether Hutchison can remain effective in the Senate while running in the Republican primary for Governor. Rep. Branch said,
“She, like other professional women, can multitask as well as men or better,” Branch said. “There’s a long history of senators running for higher office from the Senate,” he said, noting that John McCain and Barack Obama ran for president while remaining in office.
Thank you Rep. Dan Branch, I couldn’t have said it better myself!
She keeps missing votes, though, so she is clearly not cabale of multitasking.
Actually if you do a little research you find out Hutchison missed 127 of 5722 roll call votes (2%) since Jun 15, 1993. The mean for all Congress members is 3%.
Pwned.
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