This is bad?
Sen. John Cornyn is worried that Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison is going to retire early this fall to run for Governor, but I’m missing the problem here (via Political Wire):
“My guess,” he told Texas reporters at his Senate office today, is that Hutchison will resign “this fall sometime.”
That would allow Perry to appoint an interim senator and allow a special election to take place in May 2010 instead of this November (which would happen if she resigned this spring or summer).
It seems pretty simple:
- Hutchison resigns.
- Governor Perry appoints Texas Railroad Commissioner* Michael Williams to be interim Senator.
- Williams wins the special election.
Come on, Senator Cornyn. This isn’t exactly rocket science.
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, and is (to the best to my knowledge) in the public domain.