I was at this event yesterday at my neighbor's house here in Lake Jackson Texas. I went to one for Ron Paul and son Rand Paul last Saturday, also in our neighborhood. I enjoy meeting the candidates and hearing what they have to say. Always interesting.
Photo by Holly Parker
Republican effort ~
U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, R-Texas, signs an autograph for Judy Schaefer during a Wednesday afternoon gathering at Anne McKeithan’s home in Lake Jackson.
As a Senator for Texas, KBH only responded to one of my seven letters.
As far as I'm concerned, she is the female equivalent of John McCain; maybe a RINO Ann Richards.
She's got a long way to go in convincing me to vote for her.
Things that give me the shudders about her -
Will drag around and fence-sit about positions, tends to shirk and be vague, may sandbag around until the last moment on a vote. (Sarah Palin she's NOT)
Will play the "I didn't know about that" game on something awkward (the Love Field law debacle comes to mind)
Kow-tows too much toward "seeking federal guidance" - uhuh, the LAST bunch on earth you would want any "guidance" from.
Has the disconnected grasp of an outsider looking in from the outside on Texas internal state politics.
Hypocrite - continues to assail Perry over the TTC, which is dead in the water and may never rise back up whole, when she is all-in with a boondoggle just as bad, High-Speed Rail that would, like the TTC, cross and disrupt vital roadway access and threaten property owners. A true Asian/Euro high-speed bullet train would require a closed corridor configuration in order to avoid smacking farm equipment, school buses or deaf little old ladies - roadways crossing its path would have to either be lowered, overpassed to the tune of 10+-$14+ million a pop, or the whole thing run on a raised platform like the monorail at Disneyworld - all expensive anyway you do it. And there would be the same exact issues of economic and environmental impact, property values, public auto traffic, school district and public safety access as with the Trans Texas Corridor. It's the TTC redux, but with rails. She obviously didn't think all that through before jumping on that bandwagon.