A new Democrat stepped into the ring today intent on taking a swing at incumbent Republican Rick Perry. You may have heard of him. His name is Bob Gammage and he has been a state house member, a state senator, a US congressman, and a Texas Supreme Court Justice. You haven’t heard of him? Ok, he was a member of the Dirty 30. You haven’t heard of the Dirty 30? To bad – those were fun days.

In effect Gammage will is a 67 year old Democrat with a long resume challenging a 47 year old Democrat with a brief resume. Gammage is certainly familiar with state government and politics, and has some old fashioned charisma. He is likely to treat Texas Democrats and maybe later Rick Perry to some pretty blustery rhetoric. The general reaction from around the state seemed to be that Gammage was a man of the past who would be more entertaining than Bell.

The “Dirty 30?” They were a bi-partisan group of ethics reformers from the 1970s who challenged the power of a House Speaker named Gus Mutscher. Who was Gus Mutscher? Well, …

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