Texas Gov. Candidate Caught Lying About 2000 Vote!!!

[Czolgosz]

Kinky Friedman is a Republican running as an independent candidate for Texas governor which will dilute the anti-incumbent vote and greatly increase the likelihood that Gov. Perry (Republican nutjob) will be re-elected.

Kinky gave an interview to Susannah McNeely of Ruminator magazine at the beginning of his campaign for governor where Kinky said that he voted for Al Gore in 2000:

SM: Who did you vote for in 2000?
KF: I voted for Gore then. I was conflicted ... but I was not for Bush that time. Since then, though, we’ve become friends. And that’s what’s changed things.
SM: So it’s your friendship with him that’s changed your mind about having him as president more than his specific political positions?
KF: Well, actually, I agree with most of his political positions overseas, his foreign policy.... What he’s been doing in the Near East and in the Middle East, he’s handling that well, I think.

Yet that's clearly a lie because according to Kerr County voting records, Kinky voted in the 2004 presidential general election but not in any other contest since 1994.

Here is a link to a blog that addresses the issue in detail: http://stopkinky.blogspot.com/.



This is just Kinky's latest prevarication. Here's Kinky's flip-flop on women's rights:

Kinky's own website quotes Kinky telling the New York Times, "I'm not pro-choice." To the amazement of CNN reporter Bruce Burkhardt, Kinky repeated this in an interview on CNN:

CNN: As for other issue, his positions are a little hazier. Take abortion.
FRIEDMAN: And I'm not pro-life, and I'm not pro choice. I'm pro football!
CNN: Now that's evasive, man, that's evasive.

Now, Kinky's website also simultaneously claims Kinky believes in a woman's right to choose (apparently, Kinky's also believes he can have his cake and eat it, too).

Here's another flip-flop in the death penalty:

At a recent death penalty trial, Kinky testified under oath that although "he used to support the death penalty, Friedman told jurors he's now against it." Yet Kinky's website says "Kinky is not anti-death-penalty," and this blatant contradiction of Kinky's testimony under oath is exactly what Kinky told CBS News.

For more, see http://stopkinky.blogspot.com/.



If this is news to you, please keep it kicked because Kinky is in the middle of a drive to get signatures in order to appear in the ballot and he's preying on progressive voters who have read his books and heard his music but don't know that his position on most issues is simply terrible.

[shenmue]

1. Sounds like an idiot

:dunce:

[Czolgosz]

9. That's an insult to bona fide idiots everywhere.

[Wickerman]

2. I've enjoyed Kinky's books and his candidacy amused me

but this needs to end. He is unwilling to say where he is on positions and support Bush? He lies about his voting record? He's a republican? Hell, I thought he was going to run as an indie (I've not followed the race much, obviously).

[Czolgosz]

3. Kinky's run for office before as a Republican; he's only voted once in the

past 12 years, and it was to vote for Bush/Cheney in 2004; and Kinky's ballot drive is funded in part by Republicans.

On the issues, Kinky advocates anti-progressive positions:

1. Kinky wants to take money generated from sales tax and other state revenue sources and give that money away only to Texas property owning corporations and people with those owning the most valuable property getting the biggest windfall (Live in an apartment? Tough! Do you live in a modest house? Too bad!).

2. On a November 8, 2005, Kinky appeared on a nationally televised CNBC news program, where he was asked about his views on criminal punishment. Kinky replied, "Throw 'em in prison and throw away the key, and make 'em listen to a Negro talking to himself." When asked whether his use of the word "Negro" was racist, Kinky replied "no ... it's a charming word."

3. Kinky would address Texas' public education funding crisis by letting "the corporate sector bid on funding athletics." (What exactly does Kinky think the corporations will be getting from our children in exchange for their high bids?

4. Kinky proposes to deal with immigration issues by building a wall along the Texas-Mexico border and by outsource our border security to five Mexican generals who we'd pay based on how successfully they kept immigrants from crossing the border into Texas.

5. Kinky supports school prayer and posting the Ten Commandments in Texas classrooms (no word on whether Kinky has decided to post the Hebrew, Catholic, or Protestant version of the "Ten Commandments").

6. Kinky hasn't even gotten on the ballot yet, and he's already offered the top political appointment to make his biggest campaign contributor Secretary of State for Texas.



I say, if he votes like a Republican, if he's run for office as a Republican, and he quacks like a Republican . . .

[jumpoffdaplanet]

4. sounds like he's going to spilt the rethug vote

.

[Czolgosz]

5. If the voters knew of his stand on the issues (and if the Texas GOP voters

would not be disinclined to vote for a Jew), you might be correct, but most Kinky petition-drive supporters do not know where Kinky stands on the issues (they just like his music and books and irreverant attitude), and the polling shows that Kinky takes three times as many votes from progressive and moderate voters as from conservative voters (<http://www.surveyusa.com/client/PollReport.aspx?g=57a012e1-d1ce-4aab-8aed-fb23ccd731ab&c=49>).

[TomInTib]

6. Kinky was a friend of mine. Emphasis on WAS..

This bullshit campaign of his came straight out of the WH.

His campaign has spent no money, the sigs on the petition(s) were generated in bars, the TV (national) has been all over him as if he is legitimate and all he does is spout ridiculous shit.

How do you think his redneck and Dockers crowd would react if we who have known him for decades went public with his sexual preferences?

Fuck Kinky.

[Czolgosz]

10. Odd that you mention sexual preference. He says he favors gay marriage but

when the homophobic constitutional amendment was on the Texas ballot, Kinky didn't even bother to vote. What a fraud!

[UTUSN]

7. He also said offenders should be locked up "with a Black who talks to hims

He said offenders should be locked up with the key thrown away, and "in a cell with a Black man who talks to himself." As for being an idiot as somebody posted above, he's a USEFUL idiot for the Repukes because the young Libs in Austin think he's cool, will sign his petition, and will vote for him, and thereby lose it for the Dems. (Now the flames: ) The same as they voted for NADER.

[Czolgosz]

8. Kinky's quote was worse: "make 'em listen to a Negro talking to himself"

is how Kinky proposes to punish criminals. You should see the video -- it's unbelieveable:

<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9mXTxEQI3A&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Eburntorangereport%2Ecom%2FfrontPage%2Edo>