Author Topic: The Next Governor of the Great State of Texas! (Read 309 times)

rpm · « **on:** February 03, 2005, 06:40:48 PM »

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Thursday, February 03, 2005
Friedman Launches Bid for Texas Governor
MICHAEL GRACZYK Associated Press

SAN ANTONIO - With the Alamo as his backdrop, musician-turned-mystery author Kinky Friedman launched an independent, and unconventional, campaign Thursday to run for Texas governor in 2006.

He announced his candidacy just after sunrise, saying, "We're going to wake up this great slumbering giant of Texas independence."

Friedman is campaigning against what he calls the "wussification" of Texas, which he defines as political correctness run amok. He favors legalized casino gambling to finance education and would push for life without parole as an alternative to the death penalty.

His humor often plays on his Jewish background, and he quotes Bob Dylan and Willie Nelson, both friends. Campaign bumper stickers use his longtime nickname to proclaim: "Why Not Kinky?"

Friedman, 60, views the successes of Jesse Ventura in Minnesota and Arnold Schwarzenegger in California as signs he can be elected, but getting on the ballot as an independent will be a hurdle.
After the March party primaries next year, he has two months to collect 45,540 valid signatures, which is 1 percent of the votes cast in the 2002 race. If a runoff follows the primaries, the signature period shrinks to 30 days.

Republican Gov. Rick Perry is expected to seek a second full term next November. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison and Comptroller Carole Keeton Strayhorn also are possible GOP candidates.
Friedman - whose real name is Richard - had some modest success on the entertainment circuit with his band, The Texas Jewboys, and toured with the all-star Bob Dylan Rolling Thunder Revue in the 1970s.

More recently, he has written 17 mysteries, counting both President Bush and former President Clinton among his readers. Among his books are "Greenwich Killing Time" and "A Case of Lone Star."

His only previous bid for public office was an unsuccessful try for justice of the peace in 1986 in Kerrville, near his ranch.

Gunslinger · « **Reply #1 on:** February 03, 2005, 07:16:03 PM »

I read about this today and thaught of you RPM .....BTW hows the weather in North Texas????? I'm gonna be in wichita falls for 2 weeks.

soda72 · « **Reply #2 on:** February 03, 2005, 07:19:41 PM »

Ok guys let's find a rope!!!

DREDIOCK · « **Reply #3 on:** February 03, 2005, 07:22:37 PM »

Doesnt he look a bit like Richard Boone? ( Have gun will Travel)

SOB · « **Reply #4 on:** February 03, 2005, 07:49:21 PM »

I think he kinda looks like Warren Oates from The Wild Bunch (second from the left) ...aka Sgt Hulka from Stripes.

rpm · « **Reply #5 on:** February 03, 2005, 08:58:30 PM »

Guns, it's cold and wet right now. Low 31 Hi 50. I live 60 miles southeast of there. Enjoy Sheppard, I helped build the new runway.

Gunslinger · « **Reply #6 on:** February 03, 2005, 09:40:29 PM »

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Originally posted by rpm
Guns, it's cold and wet right now. Low 31 Hi 50. I live 60 miles southeast of there. Enjoy Sheppard, I helped build the new runway.

thanks bud....it was like that only more snowy 2 years ago when I was there for tech school. Didnt really enjoy the place cause my family lived in Denison and I went home for the weekends.

I'll definatly check out club maximus

while there though...its a 7 level school tradition!

rpm · « **Reply #7 on:** February 03, 2005, 10:06:32 PM »

Aaaah, you've been there before. I was afraid to tell you what a hellhole Wichita Falls really is.

DiabloTX · « **Reply #8 on:** February 03, 2005, 10:58:38 PM »

Well, I like his politics so far. Musician from Texas....they don't make em like that anywhere else.

Dune · « **Reply #9 on:** February 03, 2005, 11:18:18 PM »

Saw him on MSNBC tonight. If I were still in Austin I'd vote for him.

DREDIOCK · « **Reply #10 on:** February 04, 2005, 12:15:12 AM »

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Originally posted by SOB
I think he kinda looks like Warren Oates from The Wild Bunch (second from the left) ...aka Sgt Hulka from Stripes.

Naa I still think Richard Boone

lazs2 · « **Reply #11 on:** February 04, 2005, 10:17:31 AM »

damn... two of my favorites.... The Wild Bunch was probly my favorite western movie and Have Gun- Will Travel is about my favorite TV western. William Holden and Richard Boone played characters worth respecting.

You guys know you can get the Have Gun series now on DVD right? It is great! watch a few episodes to get into the era and then you are hooked...

lazs