Posted on 04/20/2006 12:00:49 PM PDT by thorshammer
Senator buying new house in Virginia as kids prepare to start kindergarten, will keep Dallas home as primary residence.
WASHINGTON — U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison is buying a home in Virginia to give her two young children more stability as they enter school age, her staff said Wednesday.
Bailey and Houston, whom the senator adopted separately when they were each infants, are both turning 5 this year. Bailey will start kindergarten in the fall; Houston will do the same next year.
Since Hutchison adopted them, the children have been at her side in her Senate office, they've attended preschool in Dallas, and they've flown with their mom back and forth from Texas to Washington as Hutchison has met the demands of her Senate schedule, which has had her in Washington on Tuesday through Thursday for votes and all over the state Friday through Monday.
The pace and lack of time she was getting to see her children factored into the decision to move them to Virginia, her staff said.
"As parents, Senator and Mister Hutchison decided that as their children near school age, they should be with their mom," Hutchison spokesman Chris Paulitz said.
Texas' senior Republican senator keeps her primary residence is in Dallas, where her husband, Ray Hutchison, is an attorney with Vinson & Elkins LLP.
Hutchison also owns a townhouse on Capitol Hill, which she plans to sell. She and her husband are about to close on the suburban Virginia home, her staff said.
Max Sherman, the chair emeritus in state and local government at the LBJ School of Public Affairs, said that setting up house in Virginia shouldn't affect Hutchison's eligibility to serve as Texas' senator.
"A lot more factors than that go into the establishment of residency," Sherman said. "There's a whole bunch of folks who have maintained Texas residency and spent time somewhere else."
Paulitz said that nothing in Hutchison's schedule was changing. He said that her frequent trips to Texas would continue and that there was nothing to read into the move from her Capitol Hill home to a bigger house in Virginia, except giving the kids a yard and stability.
"Senator Hutchison will continue to be a constant presence in Texas," Paulitz said.
Has anything ever happened, anywhere at any time, that wasn't directly related to the immigration debate?
I imagine she wants them in school in the area where she is during the week. Can't say I blame her.
Guess Texas schools with all it's ESLs are not good enough for the Senator - maybe, maybe she wants to be with her children more
DC schools have some of the highest per-capita spending. She should try them.
Ya know I am firmly ensconced on the anti-illegal invader side of this debate, yet I see no point in this post. I'd want my kids with me too.
Kay Bailey Hutchison (born July 22, 1943) is the senior United States Senator from Texas. She is a member of the Republican Party.
She's almost 63. They'll be able to visit her at the nursing home shortly.
"I imagine she wants them in school in the area where she is during the week. Can't say I blame her."
But she already has a townhouse in Capitol Hill, where she actually works. This is about keeping her kids out of the lousy DC public schools. And I certainly can't blame her for *that*.
She thinks she has the VP Spot already?
Hey 60 is the new 40...
Well we living longer and the death rate has drop, of course we are going to still retire at 65 and bark at moving up the retirement age and the nation will go broke, but hey, it fun.
"Guess Texas schools with all it's ESLs are not good enough for the Senator."
What? She wants her kids with her. She's in DC. Nobody lives in DC who doesn't have to. So, she's moving to Virginia, with all the other people who can afford to.
I don't get the problem here. Should she leave her kids in Texas? Kids need their mothers.
Should have named the other one 'Dallas'. ;)
I feel sorry for ten-year olds whose parents will be 73 and 80 years old. You can't have it all.
What they have done is made it a career instead of a public service for a limited time.
We need term limits NOW.
I agree. Can't blame for not wanting to put her child in the DC Public Schools. Carter put Amy in there and she was in shell shock in short order, so they pulled her out. Northern Va. has excelled Public Schools.
That has nothing to do with it but feel free to slander the Senator.
When she adopted the girl, I figured out that when her daughter is 13, she will be 70. Can you imagine trying to handle two teenagers when you are in your 70s? It's bad enough 30s and 40s.
So you are starting the drive to amend the Constitution? Now all you have to do is convince others that your wisdom exceeds that of the Founders. Lotsa luck with that.
But I have a good slogan for your drive "Save the People from Themselves."
Hopefully the parents will remember where it all is socked away.
Absolutely correct you are.
She had two babies, at age 42 and 43. When they were seven and eight, he died suddenly of cancer. Their high school years were trying for her, and today, in her 60s, she's setting up their college dorms. She's 63, and looks 10 years older.
Whew! Good luck to your sister-in-law; I got winded just reading that. I think the same thing is going to happen to many of the young women I see around me at school (I'm a 'mature' doctoral student). They are so worried about their careers, they put baby-making on hold. Now they are in their 30s and don't see an end to work in sight; there seems to be no right time to have a baby. And that's for the ones with spouses. Others are thinking, 'Damn, I guess I shudda got married about 10 years ago.'
I'm glad my late husband and I had our 1 before the feminists took over and made career more important than biology. I can do what I want and am not constrained by teens or college kids at this point in my life.
Good for her. I would would go with a private school though, but that is just me. Plus, how old is she. She must have some major energy to have a five and four year old. I am in my thirties with an 8, 6, and 4 year old and my wife and I are always tired running after her. God bless her.
I am in my thirties with an 8, 6, and 4 year old and my wife and I are always tired running after her
Sorry meant them. Three boys.
One of my pet peeves is people who wait too long to have kids but, I guess if you get adopted by a rich Senator, that ain't too bad.
Mine go private. I am not well to do. I do it on principle.
All the more power to her. My guess is that senators with small children probably make better senators.
Thought you meant something else. ;)
Somehow, even if they remained in Dallas, I do not think the Hutchison children would be in public school.
One time I certainly don't want is term limits becuase of unintended consequences. There are too many people as it is behind the scenes with a lot of power. If there are term limits, then these unseen people will get a lot more power. They work in the bureaucracy for life and we can't vote on them. Much better that we have reps we can vote for.
LOLOLOLOL.
Thought you meant something else. ;)
I read it again and it does sound funny....OK you caught me. Maybe that too. LOL.
Many of the public schools in Northern Virginia are actually pretty good to my knowledge.
Not necessarily. The Highland Park Independent School District, which covers the two "in town" suburbs of Highland Park and University Park, an area known in Dallas as the Park Cities or "the bubble", has a public school system superior to all of the other public school districts and most of the private schools. Much of Dallas' "old money" lives in this area and uses the Highland Park ISD schools. Both President Bush and Vice President Cheney are former Park Cities residents.
True. I forgot about Highland Park. I was thinking about the Dallas ISD.
The tendency to find one issue on every thread verges on autism.
Some things don't change, though....for example, it's quite obvious that Senator Clinton is suffering from an enlarged prostate...
It's not "Save the people From Themselves" rather, it's "save us from the people we have no say over."
Term limits is about protecting you from my Congressman, (in which neither of us has any say), and vice versa.
The Founding Fathers envisioned more of a citizen legislature than a career legislature, which is what we have now.
And yes, they, in their wisdom, made for a way to amend the Constitution, because they knew they were not fallible.
Knew they were fallible, rather.
Yet another reason to substantially decrease government.
But, it's just a pipe dream.
Politicians become powerful with control of money, and the only place to get money is from us.
Uhhhh....Kay Bailey will be 68 when they're ten.
She wants them to be near her.
I don't get the constant judgmentalism on this forum. Some of you people are bound to be old ladies because you ACT like old ladies.
The Founders explicitly ruled out term limits. They are the lazy man's attempt to deal with democratic realities.
Cheap shot. She wants her little ones closer to her. That's what it's all about.
They also ruled out unlimited spending on unlimited projects.
Don't believe that we're anywhere near the government envisioned by them.
/s
What we need is a repeal of the 17th Amendment and about 5,000 more people in the House of Representatives.
Well, haven't you got a lot on your mind...
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