El Paso meeting sparks barbs between Hutchison, Perry
A meeting between U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison and prominent El Paso businessmen turned testy this week and triggered the most heated exchange yet between her and Gov. Rick Perry, the fellow Republican she may challenge in 2006.
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Different perspectives emerged about what happened during the closed-door luncheon, but those who spoke about the event generally agreed the discussion got severely strained after some of the business leaders mentioned their large contributions to Perry.
The senator's neck turned red, according to one of the participants.
"It was obvious by the way she was inching up in her seat that she was fixing to let everybody have it," one of the business leaders said. He did not want to be identified because he has supported both Perry and Hutchison and doesn't want to stay in the crossfire.
"She did lambaste the idea of large contributions of the nature that we had been encouraged to make. She said she would never be a party to that," he said.
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