21.   Education Department bureaucrats and union leaders tried to strongarm his teachers last year to campaign for the governing party candidate for state governor, Rangel said.

22.   Federal probes into crimes by two PRI state governors ended without appropriate punishments.

23.   For many years, state governors have been the preferred candidates for president.

24.   He can begin by appointing a new interior minister willing to hold state governors accountable for violations of federal criminal and election law.

25.   He has in fact received plenty of logistical support from state governors, leaders of PRI-controlled unions, farm organizations and neighborhood groups.

26.   He is a state governor, not an effete foreign-policy specialist.

27.   He said traffickers bribe Mexican supreme court judges, federal judges, state governors, the police and the army.

28.   His lawyer says the attackers referred to letters Scilingo recently sent to the interior minister and a state governor, which had not been made public.

29.   However, state governors have been fighting the provision, and Republican leaders are working to modify the proposal to make it acceptable to them.

30.   If approved by state governors by the end of January, the new rules would cover every state except California.