Hutchison won’t resign seat before Texas primary

AUSTIN, Texas — U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison is planning to hold onto her Senate seat until after Texas’ March gubernatorial primaries are over.

Hutchison is challenging Gov. Rick Perry in the state’s Republican primary.

Campaign officials provided The Associated Press a copy of a speech Hutchison plans to give to Republican women in Galveston, Texas, on Saturday. In it, Hutchison plans to say she is stepping down in 2010 regardless of who wins the Republican primary for governor. But she says there are too many important issues facing Congress for her to quit this fall as she had planned.

The senator says in the written speech that she “will be resigning this Senate seat” next year.

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