With some amusement, we note that this passes for news today, even though the story is years old:

As the state’s senior U.S. senator, Kay Bailey Hutchison has secured hundreds of millions of federal dollars for public projects across Texas. As one of the state’s top public finance attorneys, her husband, Ray Hutchison, has helped issue and defend the government bonds that benefit many of the same cities and public agencies getting that federal money.

Seriously, the Associated Press only now realized there is an incestuous relationship between Kay Bailey Hutchison’s earmarks and her husband’s bond clients?

Don’t get me wrong: I’m glad to see the story written and it was well written, but anyone who is politically aware is already aware of this. What we don’t have is a list of Senator Hutchison’s earmarks meshed with a list of Ray’s clients. Now that would be something to see. Any takers?

Also, although Senator Hutchison isn’t running afowl of Seate ethics rules, we wonder if Mr. Kay Bailey Hutchison (aka Ray) is running afoul of any of the state bar’s canon of ethics in representing folks that his wife secures earmarks for? That would be interesting to know. We won’t hazzard a guess on if he does or doesn’t, but it would be interesting to find out.

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