Burnt Orange Report has had the most to say about it so far; there's a conversation going on here as well.
I've made my thoughts pretty clear already at both of those places, so no need to repeat them here. Suffice it to say that you'll be reading and hearing more about this today.
Maybe my contributions and linkage will finally convince Karl-T to add me to his blogroll.
Update (1/15): Gammage clarifies:
(Gammage) reaffirmed his support for abortion rights and raising the minimum wage, despite what the Bell campaign said were contradictions in Gammage's voting record while in Congress in the 1970s.
"I've cast a lot of votes ... over the 25 years I was in public service. I wish I could look back on that record of service and say, 'I never made a mistake,' " he told reporters.
Gammage, who last held office in 1995, also is a former state legislator and a former Texas Supreme Court justice.
He said he strongly supports a woman's right to an abortion and always has, despite several votes in 1977 and 1978 against federal funding of abortions. "The question as we saw it at the time was not whether a woman should have the right to choose but who should pay once that choice was made. Today, I wouldn't vote that way," he said.
