San Antonio Express-News:
With a decisive snip of her scissors, Texas Railroad Commissioner and 2012 U.S. Senate hopeful Elizabeth Ames Jones ushered dozens of cheering supporters into her new campaign headquarters on Broadway on Tuesday evening.
“Come on down,” said the San Antonio native, 54, waving a crowd of friends and family members into the one-story building on the edge of Brackenridge Park. “I've been all over the state of Texas today and there is absolutely no place like home.”
But Ames Jones, a 1974 graduate of Alamo Heights High School who represented San Antonio in the Legislature for three terms, knows she needs more than just family and friends to catapult her to Washington.
That's one reason she's plunging into a four-day, 14-city tour more than a year before the 2012 Republican primary.
It will be cold, then hot, then cold and then warm again before she'll know whether she's connected with her fellow Republicans, even though she first filed to run in 2008, when it looked like Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison was going to step down and run for governor. Hutchinson recently said she would not seek re-election in 2012.
Ames Jones, who was appointed to the railroad commission by Gov. Rick Perry in 2005, joins a potentially crowded field of candidates for the GOP nomination, likely to include Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst.
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She is an attractive candidate who is especially good on energy issues after her stint on the Railroad Commission. She will also need to attract a lot of campaign funds to make this a competitive race, but if she can she can hold her own with most of the contenders.
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