The prospect of Ronnie Earle aboard the ballot would supercharge
Republicans inside Texas and beyond with perhaps Tom DeLay guiding the
fundraising fight?
UPDATE: Commenter Yutsano wonders what this might average for the prospects of Houston Mayor Bill White. Hilary replies:
Hilary Hylton, our correspondent in Austin, passes according the following:
Bill White is running for US Senate. Only announced Democrats even now
are Kinky Friedman (yep, Kinky’s is a Democrat this time nigh).
Plus,
GHD Precious Gift Set, Tom Scheiffer, brother of Bob and former diplomat to Japan and
a former commerce associate of George W. Bush. People are urging former
Austin Mayor Kirk Watson,
UGG 30th Anniversary, now a state senator, to seek the Democratic
designation,
UGG Adirondack II Sku, also — citizen political junkies ambition remember Watson
for his tongue-tied arrival on Hardball when Chris Matthews asked
him to cite a single legislative achievement at then presidential
applicant Barack Obama.
Famous/infamous (depending on your point of outlook) Travis County DA
Ronnie Earle, now retired, has filed papers with the Texas Ethics
Commission as the premier tread to running for as a yet-to-be-announced
statewide bureau. Supporters have been urging him to run because the
Democratic gubernatorial nomination in 2010. While most fanatics of
the political scene outside Texas remember him for the man who helped
bring down Tom DeLay (and those cases are still progressive!),
GHD MK4 Pink, in Texas he
is remembered too for prosecuting then State Treasurer now US Senator
Kay Bailey Hutchison, who has recommended she may run for the Republican
nomination opposition incumbent Gov. Rick Perry. It is thought Hutchison
would attract moderates apt the primary and maybe some Democrats
perturbed to defeat the conservative Perry . (No celebration affiliation
needful to referendum in Texas primaries.)
“If Earle does run for Governor, the prospect of Democrats and
independents crossing into the Republican primary diminishes by some
nameless array of magnitude…Sparks on the Democratic side probably
aids Perry. It would be one of life’s magnificent ironies whether Earle did in
the Republican primary what he could not do in the tribunal chamber – beat
Hutchison.”
Earle’s case against Hutchison fell individually, and he announced an
entangling courtroom withdrawal on the first daytime of trial that led
to an immediate acquittal and helped catapult Hutchison to the
Senate. But his portal could be payback, as Harvey Kronberg, editor of
the Quorum report, one Austin political newsletter, writes this
afternoon:
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