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Gregoire heads over Cascades in quest for votes

By Ralph Thomas
Seattle Times Olympia bureau
GORDON KING / AP


State attorney general and gubernatorial candidate Christine
Gregoire emerges from her motor home as she makes a campaign
stop in Yakima yesterday. Gregoire kicked off her bus tour in
Eastern Washington because she went to law school at Gonzaga
University in Spokane.

RITZVILLE, Adams County — Terry Grimmesey Janzen, head of the Adams County Democratic Party, seemed almost apologetic as Christine Gregoire stepped off her bus for a brief campaign appearance at the city park.

"We don't have too many Democrats here," Janzen said to Gregoire, gesturing toward 20 or so supporters mingling about the picnic tables. John Mellencamp's "Small Town" blared over the loudspeaker.

Ritzville, population 1,750, was the second stop on a 10-city Gregoire-for-governor bus tour that started Thursday in Spokane and will end Wednesday in Seattle.

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