Kinky's in the governor's race--but this time as a Democrat

Hill Country novelist Kinky Friedman, who drew more than 500,000 votes in 2006 as a third-party candidate for Texas governor, will announce his 2010 candidacy as a Democrat Tuesday, according to the Austin American-Statesman.

Friedman, 64, of Medina, drew 12 percent of the vote in a campaign that produced a documentary, Along Came Kinky.

He joins a Democratic field that already includes Fort Worth schoolteacher Felix Alvarado, Whitehouse rancher Hank Gilbert, Fort Worth lawyer and former Ambassador Tom Schieffer and Garland therapist Mark Thompson.

--Bud Kennedy

Comments

[richard colonel]

Actually, Mr. Friedman needs to stay our of the race for the governorship of Texas. He did nothing but make a fool of himself during the last state election for governorship. And he got the wrong man elected to the office of governor. Mr. Friedman needs to go on a two year vacation to Hawaii so he can have the material to write a book about his travels. That is the best way that he can help the people of the state of TExas. Please, mr. Friedman stay out the race of Governor of Texas. We need someone in that office who will work for the benefit of all Texans not just those of his caliber and tight-fisted friends.

[Hall]

I sent Kinky money, campaigned for him.

The night of the debate, when he came on-camera wearing his hat, waving his huge cigar, I realized he WAS the clown others had called him.

Kinky, your "sell-by" date has long past.

Please, don't hurt our Party ... quit, "Before All Hell Breaks Loose."

[Roland Hernandez]

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