Taking Aim--With the 79th barely over, would-be officeholders jockey for position

The Austin Chronicle: News: Taking Aim: "Brace yourself. We're now entering the final stretch of uncertainty over whether Gov. Rick Perry will call a special session on school finance and property tax relief. The suspense – if you could call it that – was heightened last week with optimistic reports from the governor's office that the pace of negotiations had 'quickened substantially' between Perry, Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst, and House Speaker Tom Craddick. But the sudden uptick can probably be attributed to quick reflexes more than anything else. The day before, U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison caused a media stir with her call for the governor to get his act together on school finance. That Hutchison, a possible Perry challenger in 2006, used a national event – the swearing-in ceremony of Priscilla Owen to the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals – to do her prodding must have riled Perry to no end."