Dallas Republican to Mount Senate Bid

[Freddie Stubbs]

Source: Roll Call

Republican Tom Leppert, marking his last day as mayor of Dallas, on Friday will add his name to the long list of candidates running to replace retiring Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-Texas).

Dallas doesn’t allow elected officials to run for another position while they’re still in office, so Leppert told the city council on Wednesday that he would step down, and he told his Twitter followers on Friday that he would file paperwork to join the race.

“Making tough decisions in business and as Mayor was not easy, but I made the hard calls that are so lacking in Washington right now,” Leppert said on his new campaign website. “In the U.S. Senate I’ll help create jobs, be a watchdog for taxpayers, fight wasteful spending, reduce the debt and stop the President’s tax increases.”

Leppert is far from the first Republican in the race, however. Texas Railroad Commissioners Michael Williams and Elizabeth Ames Jones, former Solicitor General Ted Cruz and former Secretary of State Roger Williams are already in.

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[MilesColtrane]

1. He was on the Board of Directors of Washington Mutual and helped...

run it into the ground and out of existence.

He'll make a perfect Republican Senator.