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My best Tim Allen grunt: No women lined up to replace Kay Bailey Hutchison?


Chris Cillizza has a post up at The Fix with the official word that U.S. Senator, Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-TX), will resign this fall.

But reading through his reasonable discussion of who is in the wings, only two women merited mention as a possible GOP primary contestant – to replace one of only four female GOP U.S. Senators (Lisa Murkowski (AK), Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins (both ME) are the other three; there are 13 Democratic female U.S. Senators).  And there are no mentions of possible Democratic candidates.

Come on Texas women on all points of the political ideological spectrum – isn’t there someone? Anyone?  Even just to run for the experience and exposure?  From the home of Ann Richards?

I’m pleased to see Hutchison taking her gubanatorial race so seriously – but sheesh – just three conservative women in the U.S. Senate? Three percent of the whole senate?  Even I can admit to knowing that there’s way more than that in the general population, but I absolutely do not want to see the U.S. Senate look more and more like the Ohio legislature’s senate – with just one female GOP member, out of a total of 21 GOP members.

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By Jill Miller Zimon at 3:12 pm July 29th, 2009 in Campaigning, conservatives, Democrats, Elections, Gender, Government, Politics, Primary, Republicans, senate, Women 

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