One of the state's premier political writers, Paul Burka of Texas Monthly, won't be on the panel of journalists at next month's KERA-TV gubernatorial debate in Dallas. The Kay Bailey Hutchison side didn't want him. The Texas Tribune's Ross Ramsey reports that when the chief sponsor, KERA, told the' [...]
Democrat Ronnie Earle's entry into the 2010 election sweepstakes recalls his legal clash more than a decade against Kay Bailey Hutchison - and her political guru, Karl Rove. Rove was Hutchison's political adviser in 1993 when a grand jury under Earle's direction indicted her. Earle was the Travis County district' [...]
Kay Bailey Hutchison's commercial sures sounds alot like the guy on the Whataburger commercial for breakfast taquitos. It would have been better if it was a commercial about toast. Cuz she is toast in the primary against Perry. [...] 
The battle continues between Gov. Rick Perry and Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison over the significance of Hutchison's vote early this morning to end a Republican filibuster on a defense spending bill.
Perry's campaign, which earlier called the [...]
To challenge Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison's efforts to fight Democratic health care plans, Gov. Rick Perry is now tweaking the senator for not filibustering - of all things - a defense spending bill.
The congressional session is nearly [...]
One might imagine Perry's opponent to be a Democrat, but she is Kay Bailey Hutchison, a Texas' [...]
Recent statements and strategy decisions have made clear that U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison believes it is Republicans — and not independents or Democrats, as some others have suggested — who can lift her to victory over Gov. Rick Perry in the March GOP primary.
Hutchison's' [...]
Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C., would-be GOP king-maker, decided to weigh into the drama-laden Texas political thicket today in Washington by endorsing Texas Railroad Commissioner Michael Williams (left) for the U.S. Senate. Whao! Is he nuts? That would be for Kay Bailey Hutchison's seat -- you [...]
Click here to listen to the Texas Tribune's latest podcast -- or "Tribcast" as they call it.
The Texas Tribune was not the first media organization in Texas to do podcasts about Texas politics -- but often times, I find myself enjoying their conversations the [...]
Today, U.S. Senator Jim DeMint (R-South Carolina), chairman of the Senate Conservatives Fund (SCF), announced the endorsement of Texas Railroad Commissioner Michael Williams for U.S. Senate in Texas. Williams is running to replace Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-Texas) who recently announced plans to resign sometime next [...]
An interesting development in conservative Senate politics: The Washington Post's Chris Cillizza reports that Sen. Jim DeMint, a South Carolina Republican working to back conservative candidates, will endorse Railroad Commissioner Michael Williams as the eventual replacement for Kay Bailey Hutchison.
As Todd Gillman reported Monday, DeMint's political action committee [...]
Did Kay Bailey Hutchison support redistricting - the controversial, contentious and hyper-partisan exercise of 2003 when Gov. Rick Perry forced the Legislature into special session to redraw congressional boundaries two years after they'd already been redrawn, leading to the ouster of seven senior' [...]
Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst filed for re-election Tuesday and said he is setting his sights on another four years as the Senate's presiding officer.
Dewhurst, a wealthy Houston businessman, was earlier thought to be interested in the U.S. Senate seat now held by fellow Republican Kay Bailey Hutchison, who is challenging Gov. Rick Perry [...]
Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst, as expected, filed for re-election on Tuesday, declining to discuss what he'll do if the U.S. Senate seat now held by Kay Bailey Hutchison becomes vacant early next year. For now, Dewhurst said he is planning for his third term as the' [...]
Hours after filing for the Republican primary, Debra Medina was in North Fort Worth talking about health care, guns and special sessions.
Medina, who often gets overshadowed in the governor's race by Gov. Rick Perry and Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, said the emergence of Houston Mayor Bill White in the Democratic [...]
While I never believed that Kay Bailey Hutchison would actually resign her Senate seat in order to run for Governor, I also never believed that she would drop her primary challenge to Rick Perry, even as he played his mind games with her to try to make her go away. [...]
Tea party activist Debra Medina filed for the Republican nomination for governor on Monday. The Wharton businesswoman becomes the third candidate to formally seek the GOP nomination. Rick Perry and Kay Bailey Hutchison are also seeking the party nomination.
Media advocates smaller government and the protection of [...]
Wayne Slater's latest Between the Lines column, on the tension between Kay Bailey Hutchison's primary and general election messages, is not to be missed. Click here to read it.
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