Texas Humorist Kinky Friedman To Run for Governor (Comic Relief!)

[Liberty Belle]

TEXAS HUMORIST KINKY FRIEDMAN TO RUN FOR GOVERNOR

Reuters (2/3/2005) -- SAN ANTONIO, Texas (Reuters) - Texas humorist Kinky Friedman, who wrote the song "They Ain't Makin' Jews Like Jesus Any More," announced on Thursday his independent candidacy for the state's governorship.

Friedman, joking he wants to move into the governor's mansion "because I need the closet space," launched his drive to become the state's first independent governor since Texas Revolution hero Sam Houston in 1859 in front of the Alamo. Wearing a black cowboy hat and sporting a trademark lit cigar, Friedman's announcement was carried nationally on the MSNBC morning show hosted by radio personality Don Imus. ..

Like Minnesota's Jesse Ventura in 1998 and California's Arnold Schwarzenegger in 2003, Friedman's nontraditional candidacy could garner serious support, said political analyst Larry Hufford of St. Mary's University in San Antonio. . .

To get on the 2006 November ballot, Friedman must collect signatures of 40,500 registered voters next spring, and only those who did not participate in the major-party primaries are eligible to sign. .. We're going to wake up that great slumbering giant of Texas independence," Friedman said.

http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=YUWV4B5IDZNQECRBAEZSFEY?type=entertainmentNews&storyID=7529326

[Lisa]

1. his campaign store

I got a "how hard could it be?" poster from them a while back.
http://www.kinkyfriedman.com/store/

[Bozita]

2. The "how hard could it be?" poster appeared on the Imus show today

[Liberty Belle]

3. What a hoot.

Did you read any campaign literature? Is he liberal, conservative, or just a goofball?

[Octafish]

4. He's a puke. Heard him on NPR.

Friedman's friends with Bush. Too bad.

[Racenut20]

5. He did make a reference to Gov hair having a closet full of pom poms

Sort of a left handed gay outing.

[Warren Stupidity]

6. he's an imus regular

so of course he's a rethug. Oh that's right Imus was a Kerry "supporter", only he did nothing the entire campaign except bash kerry. Oddly he found no fault with a*hole.

[Lisa]

7. also friends with Clinton, though ...

And he says things in his books which the neo-cons wouldn't agree with. (I doubt Bush and Co. were terribly upset when the Rosenbergs were executed, and when the Democrats lost the election not so long after -- events which Kinky describes as traumatizing him as a youngster.) Plus, he claims to have written the only pro-choice song in country-and-western music.

I noticed that Laura's the one who sponsors the animal rescue outfit Kinky's affiliated with -- and not her husband.

[i miss america]

9. I hope he wins - and regardless - he's eminently more qualified than shrub

[sam sarrha]

8. government meets for a couple months every 2 years.prepared * 4 president

made him the decisive..or is that 'divisive' man he is today.. or maybe that was his IQ that propelled him into the WAR PRESIDENT !!!!, Fucking wet brain Moron