DCist: Hutchison for Governor!

Mike Licht

Sat, 06 Dec 2008 03:14:47 -0500

amelias: You "grew up in Austin?" Nobody in Austin grows up. That's why people live there! But if Obama doesn't name Jim Hightower Ag Secretary, Texans need to run him for Governor.

yonas

Fri, 05 Dec 2008 17:14:47 -0500

@no_more_caffeine: Don't you mean GILF?

Hillman

Fri, 05 Dec 2008 17:05:46 -0500

And blaming all Texans for individual douchebag politicians is like blaming all DC residents for a certain ex-mayor with the initials MB.

bsquared

Fri, 05 Dec 2008 16:44:36 -0500

Uh, I mean "Other part of Texas that doesn't suck". Forgot to make my tenses agree. :(

amelias

Fri, 05 Dec 2008 16:42:30 -0500

I grew up in Austin and I apologize to you all on behalf of my state. Please let us get a governor who's not a total idiot sometime soon. Not so conservative would be awesome too.

bsquared

Fri, 05 Dec 2008 16:39:03 -0500

Other part of Texas that don't suck: Guadalupe National Park. It's not even a city. And boy oh boy, it sure is purdy! My guess is Big Bend is nice, too.

Hillman

Fri, 05 Dec 2008 16:24:22 -0500

Actually, there are large parts of Houston and Dallas that are pretty decent also. Saying all of Texas sucks is a bit like the simplistic statement that all of NW DC is a wonderland while all of the rest of DC sucks.

HCE

Fri, 05 Dec 2008 16:11:22 -0500

Of course not all of Texas is bad, but it's a tiny minority of the entire state.

UrsusMajeure

Fri, 05 Dec 2008 16:02:47 -0500

"I cannot WAIT till that Godforsaken land is given back to Mexico." Come on - you have to admit at least that Austin is a pretty cool town (but perhaps is the exception that proves the rule...?)

IMGoph

Fri, 05 Dec 2008 16:02:36 -0500

what would be awesome would be if she left the senate, ran for governor, and lost to a dem down there. how'd you like them apples?

boondoggle

Fri, 05 Dec 2008 15:56:47 -0500

She's kinkier than Kinky actually. I know from experience dude.

HCE

Fri, 05 Dec 2008 15:52:11 -0500

Does anyone know when the United States' lease on The Republic of Texas expires? I cannot WAIT till that Godforsaken land is given back to Mexico.

dpmckenzie

Fri, 05 Dec 2008 15:27:10 -0500

Being also originally from Texas... I heard rumors that she was running for gub'ner in 2002, and in 2006 the state Republican Party had to talk her out of it. I'll believe it when I see it. Now living in the DC area, though, I'd be perfectly happy to get her out of here. BTW majapa - Kinky is apparently considering running again in 2010.

majapa

Fri, 05 Dec 2008 15:23:00 -0500

Ron Paul is a better representation of Texas than fucking Kay Bailey. I apologize to DC as a representative of the Great State of Texas for Hutchison. Just think... a few years ago, it could've been this guy she'd be running against: http://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/uploaded_images/Friedman,%20Kinky%20facing%20left-702884.jpg

UrsusMajeure

Fri, 05 Dec 2008 15:21:37 -0500

"first they take our perfectly well-named Washington National Airport and name it after that bastard, but they wanted to take one of our most important ... streets and rename it after him too?" I continue to exclusively refer to it as "National Airport." "Reagan Airport" should refer, if anything, to a collection of cropduster runways outside of Fresno. And even if they renamed the S buses the "Ronald Reagan 16th Street Transit System for Welfare Mothers and Liberal Yuppies," it would still be the S line to me. You don't have to be a leftie to be puzzled by the cult of Reagan.

ksf4

Fri, 05 Dec 2008 14:59:58 -0500

Your new Senator from Texas...Ron Paul. NOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!

onefemme

Fri, 05 Dec 2008 14:55:58 -0500

dear jesus--first they take our perfectly well-named Washington National Airport and name it after that bastard, but they wanted to take one of our most important (if convoluted for all of its lane changes and parking lanes) streets and rename it after him too? wtf. unacceptable. speaking as a resident of said street, i would have refused to ever call it as such. Balderdash, I say.

Hillman

Fri, 05 Dec 2008 14:53:50 -0500

Before we go all hatin' on Texas..... all four major cities in Texas voted Obama. And Austin is a very progressive area. Wishing this bitch on the citizens of Austin isn't very nice, no matter how much we'd like her to leave us alone.

RJ

Fri, 05 Dec 2008 14:33:30 -0500

As governor, wouldn't she pick her successor?

no_more_caffeine

Fri, 05 Dec 2008 14:32:35 -0500

MILF