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The late Texas Senator Lloyd Bentsen famously called Texas politics a contact sport.  Texas' senior Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison has long considered running for governor.  Today, she took a step in that direction.Gardner Selby of the Austin American-Statesman files, "Hutchison launches gubernatorial committee," for its Postcards from the Lege blog. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison today launched a committee to explore a run for governor in 2010. Hutchison?s paperwork, filed at the Texas Ethics Commission, names Allan ?Bud? Shivers Jr. of Austin as her campaign treasurer. Fetch the one-pager here. Although the paperwork doesn?t mean Hutchison has officially declared she?s running, it allows her to raise money in anticipation of challenging Gov...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on December 04, 2008 (boomark / email).