Kinky Friedman seeks to unseat Texas Governor-Yahoo

I've never heard of him before, but this sounds damn funny...
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By John Whitesides, Political Correspondent
Mon Mar 6, 8:41 AM ET



HOUSTON (Reuters) - The line of well-dressed young executives stretches down a hallway, past a table of Kinky Friedman talking action figures and straight up to the candidate for Texas governor in the black cowboy hat.

"I'll sign anything," country singer and mystery novelist Kinky Friedman assures the crowd arriving for a downtown luncheon speech as they snap up Kinky T-shirts, bumper stickers and posters sold to finance his independent -- and decidedly nontraditional -- bid for governor.

With a blizzard of one-liners, a campaign slogan of "Why the Hell Not?" and an eclectic blend of policy ideas from all sides of the ideological divide, the former frontman for the band Kinky Friedman and the Texas Jewboys says he wants to "change the world one governor at a time."

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20060306/pl_nm/kinky_dc

He's a Bush-lover. He whines about how he doesn't vote because there are no choices, but in 2004, he thought there was enough of a choice to vote for the Shrub. Fuck Kinky Friedman! He needs to keep writing shitty books and making salsa.

Was he in Skull and Bones too?

Hell, I'd have cut him slack if he'd voted for Bush in 2000, but in '04? Please...now not even two years later he wants to run Bush's lapdog out of town?

He's using this campaign to prop up his faltering career. While I've found humor in some of his catch phrases ("How hard could it be?") he would never receive my vote.

You are the one who changed my opinion on this, by the way.

Yes, Bell would receive my vote. Would that expat Texans could vote! :D

:rofl:

How can he go on about *, but claim to be a Dem?

Thanks for the comments on him, I was posting at the same time you were, wondering what Texans think about him. I've seen him a few times and thought he was funny, but he wasn't saying any of the things you speak of. Good thing, I would have dismissed him immediately.

I'm curious if any Texas Dems think Kinky has a shot. The few times I've seen him I found him likeable and funny. But given that I don't live in Texas and am not familiar with any of his platforms, I reserve an opinion until someone states such...

as you do of coming home unscathed on a Cheney hunting trip

http://www.austinchronicle.com/issues/dispatch/2006-02-17/pols_feature.html

Kinky Friedman is just a "Texas Jewboy" who loves attention and disdains paperwork. Sounds like somebody we know who used to be Texas governor.

It's disconcerting to see so many smart people out there fall for Friedman as if he's the cool, progressive alternative to whoever the Democratic nominee will be. Following his campaign in the news, the more I learn about Kinky Friedman, the more conservative I realize he is. So rather than chastise him for being a potential spoiler, here are some on-the-merits reasons why you shouldn't skip the primary to sign Friedman's petition. Or vote for him at all.

1. Kinky Friedman wants to tear down the wall of separation between church and state. He supports school prayer and posting the Ten Commandments in Texas classrooms.

2. Kinky Friedman wants to put up a wall between Texas and Mexico. In a March 2005 appearance on "The No-Spin Zone," Friedman said, "Good fences make good neighbors, and, Mr. Fox, help us build that fence."

3. Kinky Friedman won't say if he supports a woman's right to choose. When asked, Friedman dodged a question about his position on abortion. Incidentally, Texas is one nineteen states with a legislature that would be likely to ban abortion in the event that Roe v. Wade were overturned.

4. Kinky Friedman has promised to root out cronyism...and appoint his biggest campaign contributor Secretary of State. No one should be appointed to a position just because he "gave the most money," according to Kinky. Except if you donate $600,000 to Kinky's campaign. Then you get to be Secretary of State.

more at
http://victoriakos.blogspot.com/

Friedman, Kinky
Medina, TX 78055
Self/Writer
TRAVIS COUNTY DEMOCRATIC PARTY (D) $250
primary 03/21/01


He's actually running as an Independent.

http://www.newsmeat.com/fec/bystate_detail.php?st=TX&last=friedman&first=kinky

Looking to see where he did indeed vote for Shrub.

On edit:

http://www.dallasvoice.com/artman/exec/view.cgi/10/1323

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Friedman said he didn’t vote on the same-sex marriage ban proposal last November because, while he supports gay marriage, he knew the measure would pass overwhelmingly. “The voting record doesn’t look strong, but my voting record is better than Dick Cheney’s,’’ he said, referring to reports in 2000 that Cheney skipped 14 of 16 votes in Dallas County — including the presidential primary in which he could have voted for his future running mate, George W. Bush.

According to Kerr County voting records, Friedman voted in the 2004 presidential general election but not in any other contest since 1994. “I was for Bush in 2004,’’ he said. “He’s a good man trapped in a Republican’s body.’’

Friedman said he supported Bill Clinton in the 1990s but didn’t vote for him because he was often on tour outside the country.“I was doing a lot of music then,’’ he said.

He added: “And I campaigned like hell for Ann Richards (in 1994), but I don’t think I voted. I should have set up absentee arrangements, but I didn’t.’’

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Lame excuse for not voting for Richards or Clinton, dude.

He's an artiste, a writer of a novel, a friend of Pickles--------somebody to party with. Not a serious human

and hopefully the general election.