DFW HOYA
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Post by DFW HOYA on Jul 3, 2005 13:25:53 GMT -5
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Post by AustinHoya03 on Jul 11, 2005 15:43:25 GMT -5
The bumper stickers here in Austin read: "He ain't kinky -- he's my Governor!"
Kinky is living proof that "they ain't makin' Jews like Jesus anymore" and the reason I bought my first subscription to Texas Monthly.
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HoyaTex22
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Post by HoyaTex22 on Jul 12, 2005 15:19:35 GMT -5
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Post by AustinHoya03 on Jul 14, 2005 15:31:02 GMT -5
You haven't seen disgusting until you've seen Leslie on 6th street in a bra and thong. |
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Post by AustinHoya03 on Jul 25, 2005 18:35:37 GMT -5
The current issue of Texas Monthly has a report from the campaign trail: www.texasmonthly.com/mag/issues/2005-08-01/reporter.phpBest Kinky joke included in the write-up: “You know what the guy with five American flags on his truck said to the guy with four? ‘Go back to Afghanistan, you communist motherf—er!’” Also included is Kinky's Five Mexican Generals Plan for securing the border. 1) Give five Mexican generals bank accounts with a balance of $2M; 2) Hand control of the border over to the generals; 3) Subtract $5K from a general's bank account when an illegal crossing is made in his area of control. |
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Post by david on Aug 7, 2005 20:05:48 GMT -5
one reason i love living in austin -- a liberal oasis in a sea of red -- is that crazy leslie always manages to do fairly well in his(?) political misadventures.
gotta love this town.
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DFW HOYA
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Post by DFW HOYA on Aug 7, 2005 20:48:49 GMT -5
Of course, Texas was once as "blue" a state as they came. Until 1978, the state had not elected a single Republican to state office in a century.
Today, no Democrat holds a single statewide elective office.
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Post by DallasHoya on Aug 7, 2005 21:06:29 GMT -5
From Kinky's things you would never hear a real Texas say:
The tires on that truck are too big.
I'll have the decaf latte please.
I believe the propoer word is "African-American".
Honey, I think we should sell the pickup and buy a family sedan.
I thought Graceland was tacky.
Wrestling is not real.
No kids in the back of the pickup. It's just not safe.
Duct tape won't fix that.
We don't keep firearms in this house.
You can't feed that to the dog.
William Robert, you appall me.
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DFW HOYA
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Post by DFW HOYA on Aug 7, 2005 21:17:31 GMT -5
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Post by nychoya3 on Aug 17, 2005 11:36:13 GMT -5
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Post by HoyaDestroya on Aug 18, 2005 8:13:20 GMT -5
After winning $45,612 last weekend playing the slots at Harrah's in New Orleans, entertainer/TX GOV candidate Kinky Friedman (I) said: "It's a sign" (AP).
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Post by AustinHoya03 on Sept 23, 2005 11:54:14 GMT -5
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nychoya3
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Post by nychoya3 on Sept 23, 2005 13:23:58 GMT -5
Texas people...is there an actual chance Kinky could win? How well known is he, really? He's clearly quite a character, but a lot of things had to come together for Jesse Ventura to win in Minnesota, which is clearly the main bit of precedent here. Arnold was so well known that he's a different case.
I see that Rick Perry isn't especially popular, though the last poll was better for him. Can he run again? Still, this is a state that reelected Perry with 58% of the vote. Yeah, it's got it's own culture, but Texas is still pretty darn conservative. It'd be very interesting if Friedman could tap into some undercurrent of discontent, even as sort totally atypical candidate, and be successful.
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DFW HOYA
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Post by DFW HOYA on Sept 23, 2005 20:48:50 GMT -5
Texas people...is there an actual chance Kinky could win? As long as Rick Perry runs against the Democrats, he wins, but there are polls which say his base of support is only about 15% of the party. In 5+ years, it's hard to remember anything he has actually done. And compared to Perry, GWB is The Great Communicator. His chief GOP rival is Carol Strayhorn, who is the state comptroller but is not as well known elsewhere. The Democrats have, well, nobody. The election is 13 months away and there is only one candidate who is virtually invisible. Friedman is not the national star that Schwarzenegger is nor the bullhorn that Jesse Vanos (nee Ventura) was. He's an old fashioned character, which has a tradition in Texas gubernatorial politics. The most well known celebrity governor was W. Lee (Pappy) O'Daniel, as cited in the fictionalized "Oh Brother, Where Art Thou". O'Daniel, best known for his role with the Light Crust Doughboys musical group, sang his way into the governor's office in the early 1940's largely to increase sales for his flour company. People bought his biscuits despite the fact that he had no concept of governing. Friedman is not an O'Daniel, even though I'm guessing Pappy never sang a song like Kinky's "I'm an a--hole from El Paso". His ideas vary between cogent (education reform) to intriguing (a 1% tax on every barrel of oil to go to pay for teachers, policemen and firefighters) to ambitious (death penalty reform) to just plain wacky (naming Willie Nelson energy czar and pursuing bio-diesel fuel) but they resonate in a state that prides itself on being different. One voter in an Amarillo article summed it up this way: "I like some of his ideas about education. The state needs more characters. We are an independent state and we need that independence back." |
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Post by AustinHoya03 on Sept 27, 2005 20:38:22 GMT -5
Texas people...is there an actual chance Kinky could win? DFW summed it up pretty well. I'll try to add a little bit. You wonder if there is "some undercurrent of discontent." The answer is: sort of. There is some general resentment out there because both of the GOP candidates are much better at putting out self-laudatory press releases and fighting amongst themselves than governing. Not only is it difficult, as DFW said, to think of anything Perry has done over the past 5 years, he's taken most of the heat for failing to solve the school-finance crisis that currently plagues Texas. The question is: are enough Texans politically independent enough, and are those Texans paying close enough attention to state politics for this to matter? However, even though he's had a lackluster first term, Perry has a lot going for him. For starters, he's the best political fundraiser in the state. He has boatloads of money -- so much that it was certainly a factor in Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison's decision not to run for Governor (she is running for re-election to the US Senate) in '06. He's pretty good at looking and acting gubernatorial on TV -- the pollsters say all the face time he's gotten from Hurricanes Katrina and Rita has given him a boost. Also, because Perry has boatloads of money, is the frontrunner, and is the incumbent, he's got the support of most GOP leadership across the state. He's also got "Republican" next to his name, and that alone gives him a solid base among those Texans who have come to view the Democratic party as the party of filanderous presidents, MoveOn.org, etc. Problem is, money alone can't win elections. And Perry is going to get slammed by Carole Keeton Strayhorn in the primary, because she can't stand him on a personal or professional level. It's going to be ugly. (Would've been uglier if KayBay had run, but it'd be Perry's folks doing the slamming.) But Strayhorn probably doesn't have the backing, the money, or the political skill to beat Perry. But if she can damage him enough, that would give Kinky a boost. So, barring a scandal, it's likely to be Perry vs. Kinky vs. Democrat Chris Bell, of whom Austin American-Statesman John Kelso has said "his nickname might as well be, 'who's he?'" For Kinky to win, a good chunk of the people who voted Republican in '02 have to be angry enough to want a change in leadership, and Kinky has to be a serious enough candidate to be electable. In other words, Kinky has to build up a base, and also get some of the '02 Republican voters who are tired of Perry not to reflexively vote for the Dems when they jump ship. As for me, I really haven't decided who I'll vote for yet. I really think Perry is more wrapped up in being a politician than being a governor, and he can't solve any of the complex problems facing the state. I don't know enough about Bell to say if I like him or not, but would I vote for him anyway if his candicacy is DOA? Is Kinky's candidacy DOA? Is Kinky skilled enough/serious enough to solve the complex problems Perry couldn't? And that's what it will probably come down to. I think Perry has had his chance and blown it. I'll vote for whoever is the best candidate for solving problems, getting things done, and moving Texas forward. If that's Kinky Friedman, he's got my vote. |
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Post by AustinHoya03 on Sept 23, 2006 0:01:27 GMT -5
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