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December 12, 2005
Kinky Friedman interview
Michael Schaub posts this interesting interview with Texas author, songwriter (The Ballad of Charles Whitman, They Ain’t Makin’ Jews Like Jesus Anymore and Get Your Biscuits in the Oven and Your Buns in the Bed), musician and independent gubernatorial candidate Kinky Friedman, which includes the following pearls of wisdom from the self-styled original Texas Jewboy:
Q: Do you think you’d be able to work with the Democrats and the Republicans in the state legislature?Absolutely. I will charm their pants off. Invite ‘em over, we’ll have some barbecue, smoke some cigars together, and we’ll get this thing rolling. And a lot of things can be done without the legislature, . . . I’d like to rename four state highways after Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, Bob Wills, and Buddy Holly. Not toll roads, by the way.
Q: (State) Senator Jeff Wentworth objected to naming a road after Willie Nelson this year.
That’s right! (Laughs.) But it was a toll road! Willie said he’s worked hard his whole life, and doesn’t want a toll road named after him, and that maybe the electric chair would be good.
Q: Who do you think was the last great governor that Texas had?
Great? Probably Sam Houston. It’s been downhill from there. I always like to quote Henry Kissinger, who said that 90 percent of politicians give the other 10 percent a bad name.
Q: You’ve talked about your “anti-wussification” campaign for Texas. What does that involve?
Making it okay to say “Merry Christmas.” Making it okay to smoke where you want to. Bringing back the Ten Commandments. I may have to change their name to the Ten Suggestions. I want to bring them back to the public schools. They were taken out not because of church and state, but because of political correctness. Some atheist came up and said he didn’t like the Ten Commandments. We all know what happens when an atheist dies. His tombstone reads “All dressed up and no place to go.” By the way, I’ve written my own epitaph, Mike, which is: “If you can read this, you’re standing on my head.” It’s a good one, ain’t it?
Read the entire interview. If Friedman stays in the race, then the television ratings for the upcoming Texas gubernatorial debates in 2006 may set records. ;^)
Posted by Tom at December 12, 2005 06:40 AM
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I have been watching the candidacy of Kinky Friedman since I saw one of his campaign slogans on a bumper sticker in Galveston:
"Kinky for Governor - How hard could it be?"
Seriously, I think he stands to benefit greatly from the evolution of the Anyone-but-Perry contingent of the electorate after the disasters of the School Finance special sessions.
jrb
Posted by: jim bob baker at December 12, 2005 09:50 AM
he looks like the late, great Warren Oates in that photo
Posted by: banjo jones at December 13, 2005 11:55 AM
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