Flight of the "Killer Bees": State senators elude the Texas Rangers and sting a bill.

REPUBLICAN Party (U.S. : 1854- ); UNITED States. Congress. Senate

HOBBY, William; CONNALLY, John Bowden, 1917-1993

The article focuses on the elusion of the twelve U.S. state senators to block the bill regarding a state presidential primary being pushed by Lieutenant Governor William Hobby. It states that the bill would have made the presidential primary election on March 11, 1980, giving former Governor John Connally an opportunity to win in the primary and capture the nomination of Republicans. It says that Hobby called the twelve senators as the Killer Bees, as they often opposed to his proposed legislation stemmed from allowing the Texans of one party to vote in the other's primary, while voters cannot split their ballots, thus decided to vanish from their Senate seats to block any senate actions. Accordingly, Hobby gave up his bill and the fugitives returned, revealing their hiding place.