Gammage kicks off campaign tour

[NoPasaran]

Gubernatorial candidate Bob Gammage took aim at Gov. Rick Perry and President Bush on Monday but said little about his opponents in the Democratic primary as he launched a statewide tour designed to draw attention to his fledgling campaign.

The former Texas Supreme Court justice stopped in an airport terminal with Ben Grant, a former lawmaker and judge who is running for lieutenant governor, in embattled Republican U.S. Rep. Tom DeLay's hometown. Gammage used to represent the area in Congress.

"There's a corrupt out-of-control political machine that stretches all the way from Washington, D.C., to Austin," Gammage said. "Tom DeLay is at one end, and Rick Perry is at the other."

With Comptroller Carole Keeton Strayhorn leaving the Republican primary to run as an independent and Perry almost assured of the GOP nomination, the Democratic primary has become the first major battle in the 2006 governor's race.

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