Why Leppert Is “Moving Toward” Re-election

According to just about everybody, Kay Bailey will announce this morning that she is staying. The mayor’s only chance of getting her Senate seat was a special election, which would be, in effect, a bi-partisan free-for-all (there is no party identification on the ballot). In a pure Republican primary, a reasonable, get-it-done guy like our mayor would not stand a chance. So it is time to stuff all those polls and county-by-county voting charts into a manila folder and file it away for  another day.