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...course, grudges could come into play, and this is still a political, not a criminal, trial. But senate president John Cullerton was equally blunt, saying that playing politics with the trial could come back to bite the same senators sitting in Blagojevich's judgment...
...Perry has found strength among conservative Christian Republicans, while Hutchison gets high marks from urban Republicans, many of them female, plus independents. And Hutchison's move is forcing some of the party's major financial backers to choose sides, among them several important Perry backers - including Houston beer distributor John Nau and Dallas oilman Louis Beecherl - who have switched their allegiance to Hutchison. Well-known Texas personalities, former Dallas Cowboys quarterback Roger Staubach and movie star Chuck Norris have also donated to the Senator's exploratory committee. (See George W. Bush's top 10 YouTube moments...
...Democratic wannabes, most notably Houston mayor and former Clinton Deputy Energy Secretary Bill White and former Texas comptroller John Sharp, are lining up for the potential Senate seat, leaving Perry and Hutchison to fight it out in the governor's race. "If people knew it was going to be [just] Rick Perry, you'd see folks willing to put their name forward," Democratic state representative Leticia Van de Putte told the San Antonio Express. "People understand in a general election that Kay Bailey Hutchison is such an intense brand, it's hard to get market share on that...
...Elizabeth Ames Jones. Hutchison's resignation would allow Perry to name her replacement, supposedly giving that person an advantage in a special election. But special elections in Texas have an unpredictable quality. In 1961, after Lyndon B. Johnson's move from the Senate to the vice presidency, Republican John Tower emerged from among 70 contenders to win a seat he went on to hold for 24 years. Then, in 1993, when Democratic U.S. Senator Lloyd Bentsen became Secretary of the Treasury in the Clinton Administration, Governor Ann Richards named fellow Democrat Bob Krueger to the seat - a job he held...
...disaffected Republicans crossed the aisle and joined the 74 house Democrats to oust Craddick from the speakership as the state legislature convened last week. The new speaker, San Antonio Republican Joe Straus, is a moderate scion of an old Republican family with ties going back to John Tower and George H.W. Bush. The Straus victory is evidence of a shift in the GOP power base as urban voters gain a larger voice. Royal Masset, a longtime Texas Republican analyst, says the GOP will continue to fare well in Texas, but he sees a new polarity in the state...