Kinky Friedman's Guide to Texas Etiquette: Or How to Get to Heaven or Hell Without Going Through Dallas-Fort Worth
Burnt Orange Report (Free subscription) | 12/05/2009
Lost in the hubbub of today's announcements by Bill White that he's getting in the Governor's race and Hank Gilbert that he's getting out and switching to running for Ag Commisioner was a statement from Kinky Friedman that he too is re-evaluating his candidacy and will have an announcement on Monday. From Ross Ramsey at the Texas Tribune ... "I think that all of these things are good for the...
watersblogged! (Free subscription) | 12/05/2009
Well, Tennessee chutzpah, actually. In Texas. One of the TV movie networks has been showing the 1960 movie The Alamo , staring John Wayne as Davy Crockett (horrible casting, but hey- John Wayne! ) quite a bit lately. I first saw it as a ten year old with my older cousin, Patsy, in the theatre shortly after it was released, and complained to her that it ended with the bad guys winning- that there was...
jobsanger (Free subscription) | 12/05/2009
Another professional politician has entered the Democratic primary wanting to be the party's nominee to run for governor. Houston's Mayor Bill White has been term-limited out of his current job. He had tossed his name into the race to replace Kay Bailey Hutchison in the U.S. Senate. But then Hutchison decided she wouldn't resign, so White had to look for another political job. He has decided to run...
Salon.com (Free subscription) | 12/04/2009
You might assume that Texas politics would still be a wild and wooly business, full of eccentric candidates who’d pull all kinds of crazy stunts to squeak by each other. Like how Lyndon Johnson lost one stolen election for the Senate and, having learned his lesson, probably stole the next one himself. Or like Gov. Lee “Pass the biscuits, Pappy” O’Daniel, the flour-peddling...
The Hotline on Call (Free subscription) | 12/04/2009
By Reid Wilson Houston Mayor Bill White (D) will announce today he is running for GOV next year, giving Dems a top recruit in a state they haven't won for 20 years. White's decision comes after Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (R) decided against resigning her post prior to the state's Mar. '10 primary. White had planned to run for the seat once Hutchison stepped down. Now, White will likely face the winner...
Burnt Orange Report (Free subscription) | 11/30/2009
Here's your weekly train-wreck, courtesy of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram : I don't know what bothers me most about this interview: That he's on Fox Business in the first place... That he begrudgingly supports health care because he's a Democrat so he "has to" be for it That he says health care reform could be the biggest debacle that ever happened That he can't even pronounce debacle correctly...
MyDD (Free subscription) | 11/29/2009
Two updates on races around the country. NY-23 Congressional District After conceding the NY-23 congressional race to Democrat Bill Owens for the second time last week, the darling of the Tea Party crowd Doug Hoffman has announced his intention to run again for the seat in 2010. More at CNN . Texas Governor's Race Fort Worth attorney and former US Ambassador Tom Schieffer dropped out the Texas governor's...
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Brains and Eggs (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
Still digesting yesterday's news and reading the tea leaves and (insert your own favorite cliche'). For now I'll excerpt what I find and emphasize the most interesting. First, this HouChron story doesn't tell us much new beyond sandwiches served at Sunday afternoon's meeting between Tom Schieffer and Bill White. Several sources close to White said the decision to switch races was made at the Sunday...
jobsanger (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
This sort of surprises me. I didn't think Tom Schieffer could win the Democratic Party's nomination for governor, but I didn't expect him to quit. But quit he did , in a 3:00pm news conference yesterday. Schieffer was the first serious candidate to declare his candidacy, and I think he expected to be the frontrunner in the race. By comparison, Hank Gilbert has just recently gotten serious about his...
Bay Area Houston (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
With Tom Schieffer dropping out of the race for Governor and strongly encouraging Mayor Bill White to run, it leaves the race wide open for Democratic pretenders, Farook Shami, and Kinky Friedman to drop out before being embarrassed. Running for Governor in a state as large as Texas requires money, a professional campaign, knowledge of state politics, and a serious, skilled, candidate. Shami has the...
Election Addict (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
This ain't 'Meet the Press'. Here, on the Fox Business Network, Kinky Friedman tells Don Imus that, not only will he (Friedman) win the Democratic primary for Governor of Texas, but he will actually win the gubernatorial election itself.
Brains and Eggs (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
-- Annise Parker and Gene Locke have made plenty of headlines as the Houston mayoral contest moves closer to the December runoff date. In the wake of an internal poll showing Parker at the cusp of victory , Locke continues to try to distance himself from the gay-baiting and is assembling a last-minute smear against Parker as soft on crime . The TeaBagger wing of the Harris County Republican party is...
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
Folk musician and author Kinky Friedman tells Rachel Ray about his political ambitions for Texas and what it means to be a hero.
jobsanger (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
There has been a nasty rumor going around in some political circles that Democratic candidate for governor Kinky Friedman is going to withdraw from the primary race. The rumor says he will throw his support to hair-care magnate Farouk Shami, who has just announced his candidacy. It is true that Shami and Friedman are friends, and Shami supported Kinky during his independent run for governor in 2006....
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