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Posted on 01/24/2011 6:33:53 PM PST by Racehorse
Railroad Commissioner Elizabeth Ames Jones (R) will officially kick off her bid for retiring Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison's (R-Texas) Senate seat Tuesday at an event in Dallas.
It's the first stop on what will be a statewide tour to hit 14 cities over the next four days.
"I am running for Senate because our federal government is out of control," Jones said in a statement. "We have to rein in out of control spending and debt, ban wasteful pork and earmarks, secure our borders and get government off the backs of businesses so they can grow and create desperately-needed jobs."
Ames Jones first entered the Senate fray in 2009 after Hutchison announced her intention to resign her Senate seat to focus on a bid for governor. Hutchison later reneged on that pledge.
The Republican primary field in 2012 is expected to be a crowded one and, along with Ames Jones, already includes fellow Railroad Commissioner Michael Williams, a favorite of many Tea Party groups in the state.
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Twenty minutes ago my family received an automated call from the Jones people letting us know what she can do for Texas as might be declared in an event she will hold tomorrow.
I don’t know much about Elizabeth Ames Jones.
That makes 2 vacancies on the RRC with Michael Williams running for the same post. I think he’s running. Plus that Cruz guy, 3 possibilities.
Definitely not Dewhurst
Michael Williams
Thanks Racehorse.
She’s from San Antonio and has a journalism degree from UT Austin. Served two full terms in the Texas House of Representatives, but stepped down after having been elected to a third term and serving a year of it when she was named to the Texas RR commission by Gov. Perry. Her legislative accomplishments include Chairman of Budget and Oversight for the Energy Resources Committee and member of Appropriations, Local and Consent Calendars, and Select School Finance committees. She was elected Vice Chair of the House Republican Caucus during her second term, the first woman ever elected to a leadership position in the Caucus.
The Texas RR Commission has not much to do with railroads, but is actually an oil and gas commission, the most powerful regulatory agency in the state of Texas. Jones’ appointment to the Commission was to fill an unexpired term, but she was elected to a full six-year term in November ‘06. She represents the Railroad Commission on the Coastal Coordination Council and is a member of the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners and the Interstate Oil and Gas Compact Commission.
Jones filed the papers to run for Kay Bailout Hutchison’s seat back in 2008 when KBH said she would probably resign to run for Governor. KBH ran for governor (and lost), but didn’t formally announce her retirement until this year.
She is married to William C. Jones IV, an Austin attorney who also has a civil engineering degree and worked 7 years as a construction engineer. He specializes in water and property rights. They have two aldult children.
Her resume is impressive. Do you know what her views are?
I hope she is not an open-border LBJ Republican RINO like Perry, Kay Bailey or Cornyn.
Nope she is no good. We need a tea Party conservative. If Debra Medina runs— Im in.
2nd that for Michael Williams!
If Medina runs again, she’ll be laughed off the public stage again. No 9/11 truthers, EVER.
Doesn't look good.
Michael Williams is a Tea Party conservative and, unlike Debra Medina, he doesn’t kowtow to those loons who believe that the Bush Administration, not Muslim terrorists, were the perpetrators of the September 11 attacks.
Michael Williams for me.
Michael Williams for me.
The list starts and ends with Michael Williams.
Debra Medina was too confused to deny the validity of the “Truther” theories. She’s a little slow to be in any elected office.....
She was a state rep. from western San Antonio, when Perry named her to the Railroad Commission. Then Joe Straus won her House seat. She has been considered “moderate” in the past.
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