[lbo-talk] Kinky Friedman running!

andie nachgeborenen andie_nachgeborenen at yahoo.com
Fri May 12 09:36:52 PDT 2006


Depending on his position on immigration(if he's a closed borders guy that is bad), the prayer isn schools is a harmless piece of triangulation, since the governer of Texas has no power to override the US Supreme Court's interpretation of the Establishment Clause, and down there in God's country this sort of foolishness may be required for a Jew who has made fun of Christinaity and redneck stupidity in his songs to gert elected. I'm surpised he didn't mention he's in favor of guns, but maybe that is so obnvious it doesn't need to be mentioned.

--- Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:


> [his politics sound kind of sucky though]
>
>
<http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/elections/2006/stories/051206dntexkinky.1fd36741.html>
>
> Kinky: 'New Texas revolution is coming'
> 08:52 AM CDT on Friday, May 12, 2006
> By WAYNE SLATER / The Dallas Morning News
>
> AUSTIN - Entertainer Kinky Friedman declared himself
> a serious
> candidate for governor Thursday with 169,574
> signatures - four times
> the number he needs to challenge Gov. Rick Perry in
> November.
>
> "Fix your bayonets now, because the new Texas
> revolution is coming,
> folks," Mr. Friedman told supporters from the steps
> of the secretary
> of state's office.
>
> Mr. Friedman, a singer and mystery novelist running
> as an
> independent, delivered his petitions with a
> flourish.
>
> He arrived at noon amid a flotilla of vehicles that
> included a pink
> trailer bearing a giant cowboy hat and a red, white
> and blue vintage
> car emblazoned with a Kinky Friedman logo.
>
> Flanked by supporters holding boxes of petitions,
> Mr. Friedman opened
> an envelope in the style of Oscar night and
> announced the number of
> signatures to the cheers of about 100 people.
>
> "It's a big number," he said. "It tells me that it
> is not, as Rick
> Perry's staff said, the 'Keep Austin Weird Crowd.'
> It's the 'Keep
> Austin Honest Crowd.'"
>
> Thursday was the deadline for delivering signatures
> to the secretary
> of state to get on the November ballot. Fellow
> independent candidate
> Carole Keeton Strayhorn turned in 223,000 signatures
> on Tuesday.
>
> When a reporter noted that Mrs. Strayhorn had more
> signatures, Mr.
> Friedman joked: "Of course she got more signatures
> than we did. She
> got all her ex-husbands to sign."
>
> At the same time, Mr. Friedman said he and Mrs.
> Strayhorn represent
> "a lot of people who are very unhappy with what's
> going on in Texas."
>
> Mr. Friedman said he hopes his independent candidacy
> will transcend a
> partisan politics that has left some people in both
> parties
> disillusioned and disengaged.
>
> "There's a feeling that the Republicans have left
> Ronnie Reagan way
> behind as the Democrats have left JFK," he said.
>
> Supporters waved handmade signs, one of which said,
> "Republicans +
> Democrats = Sheep."
>
> Mr. Friedman said he seeks to steer a middle ground
> between "the
> far-right religious wing" of the GOP and "a far-left
> politically
> correct wing" of the Democratic Party.
>
> "It's real easy to say what I stand for," he said.
> "I stand for
> prayer in school. I stand for getting the
> politicians out of
> politics. And I stand for really focusing on the two
> big problems
> that face our state: education and immigration."
>
> Asked about the school-finance measures under
> consideration in the
> Legislature, Mr. Friedman said he opposed using the
> budget surplus to
> fund public education rather than a permanent source
> of money, such
> as casino gambling.
>
> State law requires that an independent candidate
> submit 45,540
> signatures from registered voters who did not vote
> in the primary.
> The secretary of state must certify the petitions.
>
> A spokesman for Republican Secretary of State Roger
> Williams, who
> knocked Mrs. Strayhorn's petitions as disorganized,
> praised the
> Friedman effort.
>
> "The organization they turned them in certainly
> makes the process
> easier," said Scott Haywood, who predicted it would
> take five to six
> weeks for certification.
>
> Also on the November ballot will be Democrat Chris
> Bell.
>
> No independent has been elected governor of Texas
> since Sam Houston in 1859.
>
> After delivering the petitions, Mr. Friedman,
> wearing a black frock
> coat and carrying a cigar, waved goodbye to the
> crowd.
>
> "May the god of your choice bless you," he said.
> "And onward through the fog."
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