GOVERNOR SAYS CHALLENGER LINKED TO DRUG DEALERS

Republican Gov. Rick Perry has launched a new ad linking Democratic
challenger Tony Sanchez and his savings and loan to the drug dealers who
killed a federal drug agent.

Accompanied by the sister of slain agent Enrique "Kiki'' Camarena, Perry
accused Sanchez's failed Laredo savings and loan of laundering drug money
for the dealers who killed Camarena.

At a brief news conference Friday morning, an angry Sanchez repeatedly
called Perry a liar and suggested he had sunk to a new low in Texas politics.