61.   GOP gubernatorial candidate Ovide LaMontagne even tried to knock Zeliff off the ballot, alleging campaign fraud.

62.   Gore ended by urging the group to support gubernatorial candidate Buddy MacKay, who spent the morning in Orlando debating opponent Jeb Bush.

63.   Gray Davis, the Democratic gubernatorial candidate, criticized Lungren, a Republican who is running for governor.

64.   Glenn Smith, a spokesman for Democratic gubernatorial candidate Tony Sanchez, reiterated calls for a top-to-bottom overhaul.

65.   Gubernatorial candidate John Buttrick impressed voters and the mainstream party candidates with his thoughtful and challenging rhetoric.

66.   Gubernatorial candidate Kathleen Brown was in the main ballroom, but all the other candidates for statewide office held their own receptions in separate rooms.

67.   Going into the elections, Armando Lopez Nogales, gubernatorial candidate for the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI, was leading the race.

68.   Gubernatorial candidate Sanchez has called for combining the Texas PUC with the Texas Railroad Commission, and electing new commissioners in a statewide vote.

69.   Gubernatorial candidate Tony Sanchez was set to address party faithful Friday night.

70.   Gubernatorial candidate Tony Sanchez, a regent from Laredo, was the sole dissenter on the motion.