A political debate with Kinky Friedman in it is just plain good television. I used to buy Texas Monthly just to read his humor column in the back. The guy has an awful lot of wit. Everyone keeps saying the campaign is a joke, but then, so is the office of governor in Texas. I cited Kinky in the bio I had to provide at the public reading I did at my university: (pardon the shameless self promotion) Zach Helke is a Texas native who spent his formative years in theater and his twenties in the dot com bubble in California. He turned down a pre-ipo job at google because "it was full of robots" and traveled the South and West of America in a small Hyundai before moving to Israel. His writing influences and inspirations include Charles Bukowski, Sam Shepard, Bertolt Brecht, Kurt Vonnegut, Kinky Friedman, David Ben-Gurion, bengal tigers, race horses, Bo Diddley, Johnny Cash, the Houston Rockets, Marc Chagall, warm water, spicy food, jet lag poetry, the intense blue color in an electric spark, long naps, the films of Sam Peckinpah and Akira Kurasawa, and anything aged long enough in oak barrels.
Those are some really cool influences. I used to read his columns in Texas Monthly as well. It helped ease my homesickness while I was living in NY.
NPR did a story on this. They stated that you need 45000 signatures of people that are registered voters but did NOT vote in the primary. The petitions are due 2 months after the Primaries. Ralph Nader tried to sue the state of Texas because he said it was an unconstitutional bar to becoming a candidate, so it may not be as easy as people think to get on the ballot.
Gov Perry has done much this year (hurricane/ fires) to improve his standing ~ right now I think he's a lock.
didn't white basically blame perry for all the traffic issues out of houston and sold the public on that (given his 91% vote)?
If you want to read a great Kinky book, read this one..... http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0...103-2538134-8026257?s=books&v=glance&n=283155 A very easy read, maybe 200 pages, and funny as all hell. Don't forget....Kinky is non-partisan. He is the only human being on planet earth to have smoked a cigar with both Bill Clinton and George W. Bush on the balcony at the White House! Highly recommended, especially if you don't know much about and want to learn more about the one and only Kinkster.
Another thing about people not taking Kinky's campaign seriously and thus not being willing to vote for him... We here a lot about people complaining about what low-lifes politicians are, and how they wish things could be different, and the candidates could be different and not regular politicians. Well, now there is someone who is different, with different ideas, and isn't a career politician. But lo and behold people don't take him seriously, because he doesn't run his campaign like one of the politicians that they complain about so much. This is a chance for folks to put their vote where their mouth is.
