According to a story just posted on the Channel 11 website in Dallas Tx:
http://cbs11tv.com/...
(AP) WASHINGTON Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison told a Texas magazine she will not seek re-election after this term and may leave the Senate as early as 2009, according to excerpts published on the magazine's Web blog on Monday.
She says she will not run to re-up in 2012 and "may" leave in 2009.
Hutchison would have to leave in 2009 or 2010 to be sure of being replaced by Texas R Governor Rick (Goodhair) Perry. Governors here are elected in "off" years from presidential elections (2010).
There has been much speculation whether she would run for governor of Texas, thus placing yet another former cheerleader in those vaunted halls alongside the portrait of George W. Bush.
When she was elected in 1993, Hutchison pledged to serve only two terms and declared herself a supporter of term limits.
But last year after she gave up the gubernatorial race and declared she was seeking a third term, Hutchison said she still supports term limits but wouldn't bind herself unless other senators also left after two terms.
Hutchison won a special election in 1993 for the Senate seat vacated by Lloyd Bentsen. She won her first full term the next year and was re-elected in 2000 and again in 2006.
This is great news for Democrats in a state whose population is increasely alienated from the Republican senators who serve us. John Cornyn, possibly one of the most unpopular senators there is (unpopular even in a "Republican" state?) http://www.newspapertree.com/... and Kay Bailey Hutchison are two of the biggest GW Bush enablers there are.
To see one of them confirm she will leave office - and quite possibly very early - is great news on this rainy Texas day. Glory Be! The Yellow Dogs shall rise again!
Yes, I know this is short. But this is fun, great news! Gots to share it (as they say here). Or as Molly Ivins would have said, "Gurl, you hafta dance with them what brung ya." KBH, Cornyn & Bush have 'brung' one another for way too long.
UPDATED: Now reported by the Dallas Morning News as well: http://www.dallasnews.com/...
La-la-la-la, it's true, it's true! Yes, I know it is an AP story, but just having more sites confirm the news is nice. Better she were gone tomorrow, but I'm not one to argue with good news. The fewer Republican incumbents, the better!