[AGL] Fwd: Gammage progressive platform... Bell Republican Lite

[Harry Edwards]

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> From: Fontaine Maverick <fmaverick at AUSTIN.RR.COM>
> Date: February 22, 2006 4:26:28 PM CST
> To: GHETTO2 at LISTS.WHATHELPS.COM
> Subject: Fw: Gammage progressive platform... Bell Republican Lite
> Reply-To: Remembrances of Austin Ghetto <GHETTO2 at LISTS.WHATHELPS.COM>
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> I think I am warming up to the guy.........
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> From: Progressive Democrats
> To: fmaverick at austin.rr.com
> Sent: Thursday, February 16, 2006 4:49 PM
> Subject: Gammage progressive platform... Bell Republican Lite
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> Bob Gammage is a strong Democrat.?? Chris Bell is Republican Lite.
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> Justice Gammage has a far more progressive platform, and represents 
> the Democratic Party grassroots, not the Washington establishment.? 
> Bell is just another standard ?me-too? candidate.? Bell is not a 
> reformer, and he doesn?t talk about the big issues. ?
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> 	? 	Gammage favors raising the minimum wage from $5.15 an hour to 
> $6.50.?Chris Bell opposes it.? In fact, Bell actually campaigned 
> against a living wage initiative in Houston.? ( Bell ?s website says 
> he now wants to tie increases in the present minimum wage to the 
> inflation rate, which would be about 3% this year----a whopping 15 
> cent raise.)
>
> 	? 	Gammage has proposed a state constitutional amendment guaranteeing 
> every Texas citizen the right to clean air and water.?? Chris Bell 
> voted for the Bush-Cheney energy bill that lets oil companies drill in 
> the Alaskan National Wildlife Refuge.
>
> 	? 	On his website Chris Bell blames ?partisanship? for the education 
> mess in the state capitol.? Gammage says the corrupt Republican 
> leadership caused the mess, and it?s going to take a real Democrat to 
> fix it. ?
>
> 	? 	Gammage favors the Democratic education plan offered in the Texas 
> House?to guarantee fair and equal funding to every school district in 
> the state.? Chris Bell doesn?t advocate that plan. His official 
> campaign website says he wants to appoint a ?bipartisan commission? to 
> ?study? the problem.
>
> 	? 	Gammage favors a law to regulate drug prices and stop rip-offs by 
> drug companies.? Chris Bell doesn?t.
>
> 	? 	Gammage favors creating a program to guarantee health insurance 
> for every family. Chris Bell doesn?t say a word about it.
>
> 	? 	Chris Bell won?t criticize George Bush publicly and hold him 
> accountable. ?Bob Gammage is the first statewide Democratic candidate 
> with the courage to publicly criticize George Bush and his ruinous 
> policies.
>
> ???????? Bell endorsed the Iraq War.? Bob Gammage (who is a Retired 
> Captain in the Naval Reserve, and whose son just returned from duty in 
> Iraq) spoke out against the war in 2004. ??? In his announcement 
> speech for Governor this January Gammage blasted Bush for ?misleading 
> our country into war.?? No other statewide Democrat?and certainly not 
> Bell ---has shown that kind of guts.? It?s the kind of guts Democrats 
> need.
>
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