Rules aren't for Republicans

State Rep. Garnet Coleman is calling out the Harris County Hospital District for hosting U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison's news conference on health care reform Monday, 1½ years after it rejected his request to hold a similar event on the grounds that it was political.

Coleman said the Hutchison event, where many of the Texas Medical Center's top leaders urged Congress not to rush efforts to fix America's health care system, betrayed a “double standard” and may have lent a partisan meaning many of those leaders didn't intend.