October 31, 2013 5:22 PM

CARONA'S PRIMARY CHALLENGER-IN-WAITING LASHES OUT AT HIM FOR BIPARTISANSHIP

Barack Obama Freeway is the subject of a Huffines attack that Carona says “is nothing at all”

Things are already getting pretty testy in what will be one of the most-watched and well-financed Republican State Senate primaries in Texas. Dallas real estate developer Don Huffines – who hasn’t formally announced but is planning to challenge Senator John Carona – is calling the veteran of the Texas Senate “one of the most liberal Republican senators in Austin.”

To support that charge, one of Huffines’ chief attacks on Carona is that he once co-sponsored a bill with Sen. Royce West, D-Dallas, that would have renamed a portion of Interstate 20 through Dallas County the President Barack Obama Freeway. “He’s so out of touch,” Huffines said of Carona, who has been in the Legislature for 24 years. “He carried the torch” for that bill, he said. “Many of the voters just don’t know how liberal their senator is.”

By Scott Braddock