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maybe americans aren't going to vote for people who voted against their wishes, and the bailouts were done against the will of the american people.
i am glad that hutchinson lost, although i don't think perry is as right wing as everybody seems to think that he is. (although he is certainly talking the talk now)
Hutchison (and Cornyn also btw) both voted for the Wall St bailout upon request (begging) by then President George Bush. She did NOT vote for Obama's stimulus. I wonder if the average Repug voter in Texas perhaps didn't realize this and just ass-umed that Kay supported the Obama stimulus. as far as the accusation that she spent too much taxpayer $, I don't want a Senator that is ineffective and doesn't bring any $ back to the State. what would they prefer? A Senator that just sits around and stays silent while other Senators steer taxpayer $ to their states?
Kay "bailout" was in Texas saying she would not vote for a blank check. She then flew back to DC and voted YES.
Then she comes to Texas looking to be governor yet doesn't give up her seat in DC ?
That said to me she was half hearted about the governorship and valued "career politics" over all else.
Her voting record pre-Obama is not stellar. I did notice her political ads changed to she voted NO on spending bills from 1/2009 onward.
To me it was a race between Perry and Medina. Kay "bailout" can go back to her cronies in DC.
Hutchison (and Cornyn also btw) both voted for the Wall St bailout upon request (begging) by then President George Bush. She did NOT vote for Obama's stimulus. I wonder if the average Repug voter in Texas perhaps didn't realize this and just ass-umed that Kay supported the Obama stimulus. as far as the accusation that she spent too much taxpayer $, I don't want a Senator that is ineffective and doesn't bring any $ back to the State. what would they prefer? A Senator that just sits around and stays silent while other Senators steer taxpayer $ to their states?
All the while she said in TEXAS that she would vote NO on that TARP but voted YES. She later said she made a mistake. Only a few hundred billion at stake there..eh ?
That's total BS..say one thing and do another.
We need more Ron Paul's in Texas and less of Hutchison and Cornyn; we need politicians who represent the people.
Kay "bailout" was in Texas saying she would not vote for a blank check. She then flew back to DC and voted YES.
Then she comes to Texas looking to be governor yet doesn't give up her seat in DC ?
That said to me she was half hearted about the governorship and valued "career politics" over all else.
Her voting record pre-Obama is not stellar. I did notice her political ads changed to she voted NO on spending bills from 1/2009 onward.
To me it was a race between Perry and Medina. Kay "bailout" can go back to her cronies in DC.
Keeping her Senate seat while running for Governor is no different than what every other sitting Senator has done before her though. LBJ did that and so did Lloyd Bentsen.
Keeping her Senate seat while running for Governor is no different than what every other sitting Senator has done before her though. LBJ did that and so did Lloyd Bentsen.
That may make it ok in your book but not in mine.
This is my opinion. You don't decide to do two things half-heartedly so you have a fallback option.
Dang. i actually voted Repug for the first time ever and chose Kay as the least of the 3 evil crazies. Why do texans keep putting that arrogant rascal Perry in there? Hasn't he been there long enough?
I would vote to keep her in the senate. her cheap attack ads would have turned me off. She split the anti Perry vote with the true conservative Debra Medina
Keeping her Senate seat while running for Governor is no different than what every other sitting Senator has done before her though. LBJ did that and so did Lloyd Bentsen.
Kay stated that she would resign in the fall to start campaigning for TX governor. Then she was asked to give a timeline so other candidates could prepare, and she said she would not resign until after the primaries.
I don't think people had a problem with her not resigning, it was the way she boldly said she would resign to campaign, and then didn't. It made her look indecisive and unsure, and that definitely eroded her support as that is about the time her numbers started dropping in the polls.
Well look at the states economy and budget comapred to toehr staes. results are hard to beat. Did you listen to Whites acceptance speech;he was sounding like a tea bagger in his trying to distance himself from the democrats in washington.Ann Richards must have turned over in her grave.
Kay stated that she would resign in the fall to start campaigning for TX governor. Then she was asked to give a timeline so other candidates could prepare, and she said she would not resign until after the primaries.
I don't think people had a problem with her not resigning, it was the way she boldly said she would resign to campaign, and then didn't. It made her look indecisive and unsure, and that definitely eroded her support as that is about the time her numbers started dropping in the polls.
admittedly, I wasn't paying too much attention at the time, but didn't a lot of republicans start to talk smack about her about this time? they labelled her a "quitter" to dare to leave in the middle of the national healthcare debate. She emphatically said that she was there to defeat Obama's healthcare Program. This was supposed to endear her to the base presumably, but it doesn't seem to have worked. They still tagged her with the Washington excesses.
Maybe she should have quit the way that sarah palin did and campaigned full time? Obamacare be damned.
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