"Kinky Friedman to announce gubernatorial bid on TV

SAN ANTONIO -- Texas musician and author Kinky Friedman plans to formally launch his candidacy for Texas governor on live television in February, he announced Wednesday.

Friedman said he expects to appear outside the Alamo on MSNBC's "Imus in the Morning" on Feb. 3 or 4. He plans to be joined by the band "Asleep at the Wheel" and a group of child fiddlers.

Friedman told the San Antonio Express-News in Wednesday's online edition that he chose the program because Imus is an old friend and "a lot of geezers watch his show in Texas."

"This could be a very long shot," Friedman said of his anticipated gubernatorial run, which he has touted for more than a year.

From http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/politics/2949595

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Here's Kinky's website
http://www.kinkyfriedman.com/race.html

More on the Kinkster...
http://www.kinkyfriedman.com/news/2004/11/jewsweek-kinky-friedman-wants-you.html
"On the surface, it appears as though Richard Friedman has led an exemplary Jewish life. After graduating from college, he demonstrated his concern for others by joining the Peace Corps. Following his return to the United States, he pursued a career in the arts, first as a musician and composer and subsequently in literature. Now, in his later years, he has decided on a career in public service.

How wonderful. How charming. How, well, kinky.

Yes, this Friedman is better known as Kinky, erstwhile leader of that famed country western band known as Kinky Friedman and the Texas Jewboys. He composed such hits as "They Ain't Making Jews Like Jesus Anymore" and "Get Your Biscuits in the Oven and Your Buns in Bed," a song that inexplicably failed to become the rallying cry for the feminist movement.
"... There is a fine line between fiction and non-fiction, which I believe I snorted in 1978 ..."

His career as a writer began with a series of mysteries that feature a former country western singer turned private eye named Kinky Friedman, who lives in Greenwich Village. The 17th -- and last -- comes out in April; we know it's the last because Kinky dies.

At the moment, though, Kinky has other interests. His latest book is 'Scuse Me While I Whip This Out, a series of irreverent essays on music, politics, and life. This of course is a non-fiction book. "There is a fine line between fiction and non-fiction, which I believe I snorted in 1978." Clearly, interviewing Friedman is, well, different. It's not so much that you have to take everything he says with a grain of salt; it's best to come with a bushel of the spice."
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From another "Jewboy" in Texas....
"Shalom Y'all!"
~CodeWarriorz Thoughts
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Considering that Friedman can not only read books, but write them as well, it would certainly be an improvement over one recent Texas governor who also requires heavy spices and made a few fine lines disappear himself.

If an Actor can be gov of callie why not a singer become gov of texas???? George why don't you run for Gov of Ariz??????? And it's high time that Code became the new FCC comm.!!!!!!

I can't run for office. I'm clinically insane.

So I'll have to be appointed by someone crazier than I am.

I wish I lived in Texas just so I could vote for a candidate named "Kinky".

George you have to be crazy to be in poltics anyway SOOOOOO you would fit right in!!!!!!

L'chaim! I say we should all VOTE KINKY anyway. Nice!