Kinky
By Heraclitus
Kinky Friedman, a Jewish cowboy singer-songwriter, is running for governor of Texas. His campaign slogan is "Why the hell not?" Actually, if you look at the report on his campaign at the BBC, many of his proposed policies and attitudes are pretty retrograde, but, if nothing else, you have to love his song titles. "They ain't making Jews like Jesus anymore," for instance. Or, my personal favorite, which I heard on a 60 Minutes profile of him some time ago. It's an homage, or something, to Merle Haggard's "Proud to be an Okie from Muskogee." The Kinky Friedman version? "I'm Proud to an Assh*le from El Paso."
And of course he has his own website.
But Kinky is not the only colorful character running for W.'s old job:
Kinky Friedman, a Jewish cowboy singer-songwriter, is running for governor of Texas. His campaign slogan is "Why the hell not?" Actually, if you look at the report on his campaign at the BBC, many of his proposed policies and attitudes are pretty retrograde, but, if nothing else, you have to love his song titles. "They ain't making Jews like Jesus anymore," for instance. Or, my personal favorite, which I heard on a 60 Minutes profile of him some time ago. It's an homage, or something, to Merle Haggard's "Proud to be an Okie from Muskogee." The Kinky Friedman version? "I'm Proud to an Assh*le from El Paso."
And of course he has his own website.
But Kinky is not the only colorful character running for W.'s old job:
He is joined by the former mayor of Austin, Carole Keeton Strayhorn, who has tried to match Kinky in the nickname stakes by calling herself "one tough grandma".
In fact, she tried, unsuccessfully, to have the "grandma" put on the ballot papers.
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My folks indeed! Thanks for the post. It is, indeed fun down here.
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Carol Gee, at 8:34 PM
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