Hutchison Gives Early Fall Timeline For Resignation

United States Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison told a Dallas radio show host this morning that she will likely resign from the U.S. Senate this fall–specifically in September or October–to dedicate herself full time to her gubernatorial primary against Texas Governor Rick Perry.

Via Trailblazers:

Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison told radio talk show host Mark Davis of WBAP-AM (820) that she will resign from the Senate this fall to focus on her run against Rick Perry in the Republican primary for governor.

“The actual leaving of the Senate will be some time, October-November, in that time frame,” she said.

It’s her most definitive statement that she will resign, and it’s the first time she has put a specific time frame on her departure.

Hutchison said she wanted to stay in Washington long enough to represent the state on key issues Congress is working on, such as health care and climate-change legislation.

“I am trying to determine, when is the time that I have done everything I can do to stop” those bills, she said. “And then I’m coming home to try to give leadership to Texas.”

When asked if she might stay in the Senate to see how the Primary shakes out, Hutchison let us in on her “strategy” for 2006, as well as her reason for running in 2010:

Hutchison added: “No one expected him to run again. You know, I stepped back last time. … I tried to give him a free ride, no primary, because I thought it was the right thing for Texas. But for him to try to stay on for 15 years is too long.”

Evidently “15 years is too long,” is the best reason she can come up with to run against Perry, in spite of his dismal record. We’ll see how that shakes out.

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