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Hutchison Begins 2010 Campaign With A Tour Of South Texas

By Vince Leibowitz  on Aug 10, 2008 in 2010 Texas Elections       [Post to Twitter] Tweet This Post  

Typically, in an election year, U.S. Senators not up for re-election defer to their colleagues and down-ballot candidates by staying out of the spotlight and not taking up media attention from other candidates.

Of course, U.S. Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison has never been one for following the rules.

This year, she’s giving fellow Republicans a swift slap in the face with a notebook by touring around the state and diverting media attention from the current election cycle.

Of course, as a sitting senator, she can pretend it is official business, although it looks a lot more like a campaign swing:

The trip will include a visit to a border patrol checkpoint in Sarita, a nuclear plant tour in Wadsworth, and a bunch of Chamber of Commerce events in different cities.

Hutchison even had the audacity to have a special logo created for the trip.

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  1. MyDD :: Direct Democracy for People-Powered Politics on December 9th, 2008 1:25 am

    links from TechnoratiKay Bailey Hutchison is expected to abandon as early as this June to pursue her run for governor, all eyes are turning to Texas and the prospects of Democrats picking up another U.S. Senate seat between election cycles. Since 2006, speculationhasmounted that Hutchison would abandon her safe senate seat to take on Governor Rick Perry in the 2010 GOP Primary for Governor. Hutchison toyed with the idea of making a similar run in 2002 and 2006 and ultimately made neither race. This time, however,

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