Flanked by two really really pasty-white "get off my lawn"-style guys, Kay Bailey Hutchison finally admitted yesterday during a 12-second media availability in San Antonio that she's staying in the U.S. Senate until the end of her term.
Hutchison said she hadn't anticipated the swiftness of changes in the country, adding to the quickly-growing list of things this year Hutchison hadn't anticipated. After her prepared remarks, she made herself available to reporters to answer each and every question she felt qualified to answer.
News8Austin, the only broadcast news organization remaining in the known universe which still doesn't allow others to embed their video despite a recent website re-design, interviewed me in their analysis piece on Hutchison's decision.
Reacting swiftly to the Hutchison announcement, State Senator Rodney Ellis (D-Houston) appeared at a hastily-called press conference to announce that he will also stay in his elected office.
Quickly sensing this new political trend, an estimated 1,294 additional officeholders in Texas, including legislators, mayors, county commissioners, sheriffs, and 3 dog catchers, have all scheduled news conferences today, to announce their similar plans to continue doing nothing different than they've been doing.
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