White plans to join race for Hutchison's Senate seat | Chronicle

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chron.com - 12/13/2008

White plans to join race for Hutchison's Senate seat | Chronicle | Chron.com - Houston Chronicle

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Mayor Bill White has decided to seek the U.S. Senate seat held by Kay Bailey Hutchison, should the two-term Republican resign next year to challenge the sitting governor, the Houston Chronicle has learned. Ending months of speculation about his political future, White plans to announce his ...

chron.com - 12/11/2008

Snow surprises Houston-area residents | Chronicle | Chron.com - Houston Chronicle

— chron.com — Falling snowflakes glimmered in streetlights, so wide that they billowed to the ground like parachutes, and so... tantalizing that even awestruck adults reached out their hands or stuck out their tongues to catch one. By Wednesday evening, the flakes ... (more) Snow surprises Houston-area residents | Chronicle | ...

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Swing State Project: TX-Sen: White Planning to Run

Daily Kos: TX-Sen: Houston Mayor Bill White (D) to run

DownWithTyranny!: True, we're further than ever from knowing who's going to sit in this Senate. Still, it's not too soon to be thinking about the next one

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TX-Sen: White Planning to Run
Swing State Project — ... for the Senate seat that Republican Kay Bailey Hutchison may vacate soon, the Houston Chronicle reports that Houston Mayor Bill White will join the race shortly: ...

TX-Sen: Houston Mayor Bill White (D) to run
Daily Kos — ... By Texas Democratic primary standards, this is almost an embarrassment of riches for one seat. Following the entry of former Comptroller John Sharp into the expected Texas Senate race to succeed Kay Bailey Hutchison (who is herself expected to run for Governor), it seems that popular Houston Mayor Bill White is ready to join him. ...

True, we're further than ever from knowing who's going to sit in this Senate. Still, it's not too soon to be thinking about the next one
DownWithTyranny! — ... plain talking, straightforward and just simply a good guy. Most importantly, he gets the job done. Houston has worked under his leadership. Now other Texas progressive sources are more cautious about White, whom they describe as a conservative Democrat. But my Houstonian sources, while conceding that White himself can't be described as a progressive, insist that the man inspires confidence and gets things done. Here's the story: White eyes Hutchison's U.S. Senate seat Houston mayor plans to run if she vies for ...