Ken Molberg: A ringing personal endorsement for Bob Gammage

[Texas_Kat]

For those who may not be familiar with Ken, he has been active in every major Democratic campaign since 1972 ( with McGovern, along with Bill Clinton and others, including Gary Mauro). Before he was even old enough to vote, he was a member of the bumper sticker brigade in the Kennedy-Johnson campaign (in Fredericksberg) and Johnson introduced him to JFK when he was 11. He was chair of the Dallas County Democratic Party from 1990-95 and he has served on the State Democratic Executive Committee since 1982, longer than anyone in history, representing three different senatorial districts.

Ken has served the Texas Democratic Party virtually his entire life, and remains one of its most eloquent and asute members. Tonight he posted his personal endorsement for Bob Gammage for Governor (on his blog at http://www.dallasblog.com/ken-molberg/ )

VIEWPOINT: GAMMAGE FOR GOVERNOR

Democrats have a chance on March 7 to help put a grownup back in charge of the governor’s mansion. How? By voting for Bob Gammage.

Gammage offers a distinguished background of responsible leadership and experience coupled with a forward-looking vision for the future of our state that is in marked contrast to his rivals of March and November.

I’ve known Bob Gammage for three decades, maybe more. We have not always been on the same side of every political battle, but I can tell you this for certain: he has the intellectual wherewithal, political skills, dedication and stamina to serve the people well, and he will bring those qualities to bear on the important but neglected issues that face us: school finance and property tax reform, ethics, health care, open government, working conditions, and the environment, to name but a few.

Some newspaper editorialists who have endorsed Gammage’s opponent, former Congressman Chris Bell of Houston, a genuinely good man, have done so largely on the argument that Bell would more readily cooperate with a rancorous Republican House and Senate. That’s hardly an inducement for Democrats to nominate Bell. Cooperate to what end? In repeatedly failing to enact school finance and property tax reform? In burning millions in taxpayer dollars to enact a partisan congressional redistricting scheme of doubtful legality because Tom DeLay insisted on it?

MORE at: http://www.dallasblog.com/ken-molberg/

[Baby Snooks]

1. Knocked 'em dead

At the very least, it left everyone speechless finally. He makes a good point about the "status quo" and the question of whether we want change or we want the "status quo" in Austin is really the question of whether we want Gammage or Bell.