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

[Wayne Johnson]

So, I imagine Bell will win in a landslide, yes?

wgJ
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>> I think I am warming up to the guy.........
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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.)
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> . 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.
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> . 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.
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> . 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.
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> . Gammage favors a law to regulate drug prices and stop rip-offs by
> drug companies. Chris Bell doesn't.
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> . Gammage favors creating a program to guarantee health insurance
> for every family. Chris Bell doesn't say a word about it.
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> . 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.
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> · 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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