Dems get 2nd gubernatorial hopeful

Posted on Fri, Dec. 16, 2005
Dems get 2nd gubernatorial hopeful
By JAY ROOTSTAR-TELEGRAM AUSTIN BUREAUAUSTIN -- Saying Texas faces a "crisis of corruption," former state Supreme Court Justice Bob Gammage, a Democrat, jumped into the race for governor Thursday.

"Today there is a corrupt political machine which stretches from Washington, D.C., to Austin," Gammage said before plunking down his $3,750 filing fee at the Democratic Party headquarters in Austin. "It has corrupted our politics; it has corrupted our government; and more importantly, it has corrupted public policy and betrayed the public trust."

Gammage, 67, joins a growing list of candidates who want to be elected governor next year. Former U.S. Rep. Chris Bell, D-Houston, has also filed to run in the March Democratic primary, and Felix Alvarado, an assistant principal at Fort Worth's William James Middle School, has said he will, too.
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http://www.dfw.com/mld/startelegram/news/state/13421763.htm

and I'm really glad he decided to run. He has not only immense experience that leads me to think he'd be a great guv, but also has great passion for the good in politics and that passion of his is infectious when he speaks. I've come to know him working first for Clark and then for Kerry. He and his wife Lynda have remained stalwart Democratic grassrooters since he retired from the Texas Supreme Court, going to local and state conventions, helping organize the Draft Clark movement in Texas, Bob speaking at MeetUps for Kerry, going door-to-door in New Hampshire for Clark during the primaries, and travelling out of state during the General Elections to be one of the volunteer Kerry lawyer watchdogs to see that, in the state he volunteered in, no hanky-panky took away votes for Kerry. In person he's a great big teddy-bear called "Bob" rather than Justice Gammage, but when he speaks, that teddy bear has great big teeth.

His website is:
http://www.gammageforgovernor.com/




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for veterans.

In Kentucky, Gatewood Galbraith has changed his registration from Independent to Democrat and is running for Governor.