Kinky criticized for another remark.

[chequita guevara]

Anyone who calls his band Kinky Freidman and the Texas Jewboys is far more likely to be making fun of racism that practicing it.

[SlowwHand]

Bingo. Che wins the prize.

[MrFun]

I'm sure that will make him feel better after having created that other thread about court cases.

[SlowwHand]

Kinky Friedman makes fun of what scares us. He has a good vision of what's important. The thing is, he alienates tight-asses. For instance, and I won't mention any names, but his initials are A-S-H-E-R.

[Verto]

Got this email earlier today:

Kinky Friedman Campaign Statement

Friends and neighbors,

While Rick Perry was cheerleading in college and Chris Bell was being potty trained, Kinky Friedman was picketing segregated restaurants in Austin to integrate them. Now that Kinky’s in second place and a serious threat to the two-party system, Perry and Bell have paid political assassins to dig back as far as 30 years through fictional books, comedy shows and song lyrics, desperately seeking to paint Kinky as a racist.

Republicans and Democrats have created an entire industry -- called Opposition Research -- whose sole purpose is to tarnish and destroy people’s reputations. This is why regular citizens don't run for office. If you do, and you start to threaten the system as Kinky has, you’re going to be attacked.

Kinky has overcome all of the obstacles placed before him -- getting on the ballot, raising millions of dollars, building the largest grassroots network Texas has ever seen, and breaking 20% in the polls months ago. He's a serious threat to the establishment, and when you threaten the political establishment, they use the money generated from their formidable fundraising machines to pay for "dirty tricks" tactics to manipulate the press.

It's a slimy industry that exists for the sole purpose of destroying people and -- like cockroaches -- scurries for the shadows whenever a light is shined on it.

The latest political assassination attempt takes completely out of context a controversial word that Kinky was using in a 1980 stand-up performance to lampoon racists. Playing a character on stage, Kinky was exposing bigotry through comedy and satire.

It’s pathetic that the major-party candidates have sunk to this -- trying to paint Kinky as a racist when, in fact, he was poking fun at racists. Shame on the press for being complicit. Rather than confront our opponents on their tactics and get the full story, they are allowing industries like opposition research to exist and operate outside the understanding of most voters.


-The Kinky Friedman Campaign for Governor

[Mrs. Tuberski]

you guys have no clue that is guy has no intention of winning the election but rather shake up the polotical world
LMAO to funny!!
and to think all of us crazy texans would put him in office cause all the world is sick if the kiss ases that have no clue as to how to run the goverment

[SlowwHand]

Don't be shocked if he wins. I'm voting for him.

[Winston]

I think it's preposterous to even consider electing a figure of the entertainment business, born out of Illinois, and with a cowboy image, as Governor.

[SlowwHand]

So, I take it you're not voting for him?

[Winston]

Correct.

[SlowwHand]

[SpencerH]

Given the current anti-government stance of many americans (even if it is mostly aimed at congress), I think Kinky has a real chance to win. Negative campaigning by his opponents just stokes the anti-establishment fire.

GO KINKY!

[Velociryx]

I think that the majority of Texans like it Kinky....I agree...he's got a good shot...if I lived there, I'd vote for him.



-=Vel=-

[Jonny]

Originally posted by SpencerH
Given the current anti-government stance of many americans (even if it is mostly aimed at congress), I think Kinky has a real chance to win. Negative campaigning by his opponents just stokes the anti-establishment fire.

GO KINKY!

Anything to weaken the utterly ineffective 2-party system is a pretty good thing in my book. I'd vote for Kinky...

[LordShiva]

Originally posted by Asher
Sounds like your run of the mill racist Texan.

I thus predict a landslide victory.

Tolerant Calgary