I’ve just added a link in my sidebar to Kinky Friedman’s Texas gubanatorial campaign. For those not in the know, Kinky is the one-time front man of Kinky Friedman and the Texas Jewboys. I highly recommend his song “They Don’t Make Jews Like Jesus Any More”, which is about kicking a racist’s ass (”we don’t turn the other cheek the way we did before”). Now he writes mystery novels (starring himself, though he recently killed himself off), and has an excellent column in Texas Monthly (a magazine I highly recommend and to which we have a subscription).

Policy wise he’s for a moratorium on the death penalty (which is as radical in Texas as it would be in Saudi Arabia), in favour of a massive increase in Texas’s 48th ranked educational budget, has campaigned - with Willy Nelson - for widespread use of biodiesel, and, finally, proposes a general campaign of “De-Wussification”:

Our icons are being demeaned. Cowboys are no longer heroes for our children, but subject to derision. We are being laughed at instead of respected in the rest of the country. What has happened to our glorious heritage? This is the great state of Texas! We are not wusses, we are Texans. “We will beat back the wussification of Texas if we have to do it one wuss at a time.” - Kinky Friedman.

Consider this the official Crankyrants.com endorsement of his campaign. Click here for the official campaign blog.

Posted by B. W. Ventril in Politification, Heebraica

 

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2 Responses to “Vote Kinky”

  1. Bear Left says:
    Disconcertingly, a Chaired Lifestyle Coach in the Study of Southern Lifestyle Coaches, who seems to think that one can coach Southern Lifestyles without paying attention to Southern Lifestyle Coaches of color (past or present), has a “Why Not Kinky?” sticker on his door, just down the hall from me. And who chaired the gang that decided to ax all women, non-white, & queer lifestyle coaches that had sought to join his business group, but did hire someone who has neither finished getting Lifestyle Coaching Certification(TM) nor actually coached his own clients. But thinks he’s the height of progressivism because he has a Kinky Friedman sticker on the door.

    May 15th, 2005 at 7:57 am
  2. B. W. Ventril says:
    Well I hope you’ll believe me when I say that this asshole is no reflection on Kinky.

    May 15th, 2005 at 11:42 am