Why are there no prominent Democrats running for Tx. Governor?

[Dover]

And other key positions as well?

The state has steadily been turning blue again, so why not keep and build on that momentum?

http://www.politics1.com/tx.htm

[Baby Snooks]

1. The Texas Democratic Party likes Kay?

Apparently the boys in the backroom like Kay. No doubt they will probably let Kinky run is she wins the primary. If she loses no doubt they will try to get Bill White to run.

If they can't have Kay, well Bill's the next best thing.

Every time I think about John Cornyn I think about Rick Noriega and I get ill. And no, I don't believe the party supported him. Despite everyone claiming they did. The boys in the backroom apparently like John as well.

[WolverineDG]

9. It's disgusting to watch the local "dem" power elite fawn over Cornyn

:puke:

dg

[sonias]

2. There is a "Draft Leticia Van de Putte" movement

First Reading blog AAS 2/20/09
Van de Putte to run for governor? Or Senate?
Thursday highlights

A glowing profile in a hometown newspaper, a newly launched Facebook page run by supporters and some love from Democratic bloggers combined to create a nice little buzz Thursday around the idea of Sen. Letician Van de Putte, D-San Antonio, running for governor or U.S. Senate next year.

Van de Putte says she has been approached before about running statewide, but she’s actually open to the idea now because she no longer has kids at home. Still, she told Gardner Selby on Thursday that family will be the key factor in her decision. “I’ve got to feel first of all that I can win… that it’s within reach. I’m going to not focus on it at all during the legislative session,” she said.

Van de Putte, who has played prominent national roles in the Democratic convention and the National Conference of State Legislatures, is not up for re-election in 2010, so she can run statewide and still keep her state Senate seat if she loses. So what are her options?

She would make a great Governor. I hope she decides to do it.


Sonia

[Dover]

3. Haven't heard of her. Thanks for the info...n/t

[sonias]

4. Are you serious?

You don't know who Senator Leticia Van de Putte is? Please tell me you're joking.

Meet Senator Van de Putte

San Antonio Current 2/18/09
Capitol ideas Leticia Van de Putte helped unite her party in 2008.
Could Texas Dems unite behind her for higher office in 2010?

(snip)
The most important gavel in Van de Putte’s collection, however, is the one that’s not here. It’s the gavel she pounded last August in front of an arena full of delegates and millions of TV viewers at the Democratic National Convention in Denver (and which Ted Kennedy touched when he addressed the convention). That gavel, which Van de Putte keeps in a satin-lined box in her San Antonio office, symbolizes what an astounding year 2008 was for her.

In January, she delivered the Spanish-language response to George W. Bush’s final State of the Union Address. In February, she block-walked on the West Side with Hillary Clinton. In June, she set the stage for Clinton’s withdrawal from the presidential sweepstakes by striking a unifying tone at the Texas Democratic Convention. The following week, she joined 11 other Latino leaders at a Washington meeting with Barack Obama to discuss his relationship with the Latino community.

In August, she co-chaired the third night of the national convention, bringing down the curtain on a night when Obama secured the Democratic nomination and Vice-Presidential nominee Joe Biden delivered his acceptance speech. In October, Texas A&M University Press published Latina Legislator: Leticia Van de Putte and the Road to Leadership, an examination by UTSA political-science professor Sharon Navarro of Van de Putte’s pioneering role as the second Latina senator in Texas history. In December, San Antonio mayoral hopeful Julián Castro publicly introduced Van de Putte as someone who “might be the next Democratic candidate for governor.” That same month, her office had to deny persistent rumors that Barack Obama planned to offer her a position in his administration. And Van de Putte herself has hinted that she might be open to a 2010 run for Kay Bailey Hutchison’s soon-to-be-vacant U.S. Senate seat.

She rocks! Si se puede!

Sonia

[Baby Snooks]

8. You have pointed out the major problem...

The Democrats need a viable and visible candidate. Hopefully she will run and hopefully she will spend the next year traveling around the state becomng visible. So people will have heard of her. And met her. And talked to her. And liked her. What's not to like?

[johncoby2]

6. The lady is great!

Unlike Hutchinson, she knows Texas. She has lived in Texas. She is a Texan.
She can raise money.
She is an incredible politicain.
And she doenst take shit from no one.


sounds lie a Texans to me!

[NoPasaran]

7. To those praises I'll add:

She's actually a Democrat!

She's not a buffoon!

I'd love to see her run in 2010 and I hope we have a strong, credible statewide ticket to run with her.

[steelmania75]

5. I don't know, but the Dems should give it a try. I bet they would win if they had a good candidate

[gilbertb11]

10. Congress more attractive

There reason more prominent Dems aren't running is because a Dem controlled Congressional Legislature and Dem controlled Exec Office makes it more much attractive for Dems than a Republican controlled Texas office. I asked the same question to those I thought fit and the answer was they'd prefer to run for Congress during this time.