The tea party peeps have been fairly quiet, but they came out to protest Kay this week after her ill advised vote (link). Excerpt follows...
A hodgepodge group of about a dozen people gathered outside Kay Bailey Hutchison's Austin office Monday to protest a procedural vote by the U.S. senator that they say helped expedite the disputed health care bill.
Hutchison, who is running for the Republican gubernatorial nomination in March, has come under fire from Gov. Rick Perry's campaign since the Friday vote, related to a defense spending bill. Senate Republican leaders had organized a filibuster on an item that included nearly $130 billion for the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. They had hoped to use the filibuster on that bill to delay talks on the health care bill until 2010.
Sounds like the turnout was not as high as the tea parties in April or July, but I think they made their point abundantly clear, and they had rallies in Houston and Dallas too which is impressive...
There is a youtube channel a reader sent me to that seems pretty biased against Kay but I can't tell if it is pro Medina or pro Rick just yet... or maybe even pro Democrat, considering who sent me the link?
They have some clips from around the state...
I think Kay just needs to fess up and say she messed up on that vote since it was 1 in the morning and she was tired or something... I don't know, make something up better than the tales she has been spinning...
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Hey now, campaign characters. Be nice. I know a lot of you on both sides, so I don't want any overly foul language, personal attacks on anyone other than the candidates themselves, or other party fouls. I will moderate the heck out of you if you start breaking the bounds of civility.