Kinky Friedman's Guide to Texas Etiquette: Or How to Get to Heaven or Hell Without Going Through Dallas-Fort Worth
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....
Brooklyn Vegan (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
by Martin Longley Since the early 1980s, self-styled Texas Jewboy Kinky Friedman has drawn the most attention as a crime fiction scribe, smearing the division between reality and fantasy, laughs and tension. In the last four years, he's also been...
The Political Carnival (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
By GottaLaff Randi Rhodes on the Radio Machine just now, discussing her observations of Ann Coulter during her excellent Joy Behar Show adventure: I don't want to say she's too thin, but I wouldn't be surprised if Kinky Friedman hung his hat on her in the Green Room. The visual burns. UPDATE - She just popped out with this: When Coulter saw [Palin], it was like: "Oooooo." It was like a drag...
Houston Chronicle (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
Hair care millionaire Farouk Shami fired up his Farouk for Governor Web page today in anticipation of his official launch Thursday into the campaign for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination. Others in the race include Felix Alvarado, Kinky Friedman, Hank Gilbert...
I Love Beer (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
On the whole, I try to keep politics out of this blog, even though my day job is political reporter for Austin's alternative weekly newspaper. Here, I want us take a break from the bitterness that occupies so many other places on the net. So I'm not gonna use this forum to tell you who to vote for. But I just got some news that compels me to at least tell you who NOT to vote for. Texas Gov. Rick Perry...
Sound of the City (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
Those of you not cool enough to attend the last upstate New York All Tomorrow's Parties jam or that Vice Halloween party clusterfuck have thus probably been denied the violent, visceral, v...
Kansan.com stories: News (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
Kinky Friedman, candidate for governor of Texas, promoted cigar chain, music and books in Lawrence.
Election Addict (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
We're adding campaigns to our coverage one state at a time. Today: Texas. It's difficult to write much about Texas politics without, at some point, using the word 'colourful'. This year's race for Governor should fit that stereotype quite well. On the Republican side, we have a clash of the titans between incumbent two-and-a-half term Governor Rick Perry and the state's senior US Senator Kay Bailey...
Texas Politics (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
Dressed in his usual black cowboy outfit, Kinky Friedman showed up for today's Senate Criminal Justice Committee hearing on the Cameron Todd Willingham execution. Asked why he was here, Friedman replied, "Justice."...
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