AUSTIN, Texas - The campaigns of Gov. Rick Perry and Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (news, bio, voting record), widely expected to be opponents in next year's GOP gubernatorial race, are taking political shots at each other over apparently friendly relationships with liberal Democratic Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton. Last week, Perry's campaign circulated a video that showed the conservative senator speaking kindly of Clinton, and now a 1993 letter has emerged in which Perry called Clinton's health care reform efforts "commendable." "It's a double standard. It's the ultimate in hypocrisy," said Hutchison campaign manager Terry Sullivan. Perry is bracing for a...
