A Kinky Job
May. 12th, 2006 03:21 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
waitingmanI'd love to see Kinky Friedman as Governor of Texas!!
Jewish cowboy running for Texas governor
Kinky Friedman, the Jewish country singer and mystery author is running for Texas governor
Musician and author Kinky Friedman has taken his rebel campaign for Texas governor to state authorities, presenting 169,574 voter signatures he hopes will get him on the November ballot as an independent candidate.
"All I can say is, thank God for bars and dance halls," said Friedman, who wore his trademark black cowboy hat and chomped a cigar while explaining where some of the signatures were collected.
Independent gubernatorial candidates had to collect 45,540 valid signatures from registered voters by Thursday's deadline to make it onto the ballot.
Comptroller Carole Keeton Strayhorn, the other major independent in the race, turned in Tuesday what her campaign said were 223,000 voter signatures.
Republican Gov. Rick Perry and Democrat Chris Bell won their parties' primaries in March and will be on the fall ballot.
The Secretary of State's Office has said it will take five or six weeks to check the validity of the signatures and verify that Friedman and Strayhorn have enough to qualify.
For a signature to be counted on the independent candidates' petitions, the signer cannot have voted in the Republican or Democratic primaries or runoffs and cannot have signed another independent's petition.
Friedman's campaign slogan is "Why the Hell Not?" and he is running on a platform for the "dewussification of Texas."
Friedman is still perhaps best remembered for his 1970s band The Texas Jewboys but he has also written a number of detective novels.
His satirical songs inlcude They Ain't Makin' Jews Like Jesus Anymore and Get Your Biscuits In The Oven and Your Buns In Bed.
As the man himself sings "... When it gets too kinky for the rest of the world, it's gettin' just right for me..."
Meanwhile, the latest entry in the "Headlines In Questionable Taste" competition comes courtesy of today's Sydney Morning Herald
Granny beats off alligator
An elderly Florida woman, who was bitten by an alligator while working in her backyard, beat back the reptile with a garden hose.
Constance Gittles, 74, was watering plants when a nearly 2-metre-long alligator bit her leg just above the ankle.
"I just whacked him right in the snout with the nozzle," she said. "After that, he took off."
Gittles received three puncture wounds and some smaller scrapes and abrasions from her confrontation with the alligator.
A trapper working with wildlife officials later caught the animal in a nearby pond. It will be killed and the hide and meat sold.
The incident occurred as a newspaper report claimed a woman was killed by an alligator in Florida and then dragged into a canal.
The dismembered body of Yovy Suarez Jimenez, 28, of Davie, Florida was found by construction workers after she never returned from jogging the previous night.
"It is my professional opinion that the alligator attacked the woman while she was on land," Dr Joshua Perper, Broward County's medical examiner told The Miami Herald.
"She died of traumatic injuries sustained by an alligator attack, a mixture of blood loss and shock, and in my opinion died very fast."
Perper ruled out drowning because little water was found in her stomach and lungs, according to a story on the paper's website.
A woman matching Jimenez's description had been seen dangling her feet over the water's edge, but no one saw an attack.
Trappers will try to catch and kill the animal and the contents of its stomach will be examined, Pino said.
"When they are hungry they can be very, very aggressive and attack for food purposes," the newspaper quoted Perper as saying.
There have been 25 fatal alligator attacks in Florida since 1948, according to the wildlife commission.
Now there's a mental image I can do without...
Jewish cowboy running for Texas governor
Kinky Friedman, the Jewish country singer and mystery author is running for Texas governor
Musician and author Kinky Friedman has taken his rebel campaign for Texas governor to state authorities, presenting 169,574 voter signatures he hopes will get him on the November ballot as an independent candidate.
"All I can say is, thank God for bars and dance halls," said Friedman, who wore his trademark black cowboy hat and chomped a cigar while explaining where some of the signatures were collected.
Independent gubernatorial candidates had to collect 45,540 valid signatures from registered voters by Thursday's deadline to make it onto the ballot.
Comptroller Carole Keeton Strayhorn, the other major independent in the race, turned in Tuesday what her campaign said were 223,000 voter signatures.
Republican Gov. Rick Perry and Democrat Chris Bell won their parties' primaries in March and will be on the fall ballot.
The Secretary of State's Office has said it will take five or six weeks to check the validity of the signatures and verify that Friedman and Strayhorn have enough to qualify.
For a signature to be counted on the independent candidates' petitions, the signer cannot have voted in the Republican or Democratic primaries or runoffs and cannot have signed another independent's petition.
Friedman's campaign slogan is "Why the Hell Not?" and he is running on a platform for the "dewussification of Texas."
Friedman is still perhaps best remembered for his 1970s band The Texas Jewboys but he has also written a number of detective novels.
His satirical songs inlcude They Ain't Makin' Jews Like Jesus Anymore and Get Your Biscuits In The Oven and Your Buns In Bed.
As the man himself sings "... When it gets too kinky for the rest of the world, it's gettin' just right for me..."
Meanwhile, the latest entry in the "Headlines In Questionable Taste" competition comes courtesy of today's Sydney Morning Herald
Granny beats off alligator
An elderly Florida woman, who was bitten by an alligator while working in her backyard, beat back the reptile with a garden hose.
Constance Gittles, 74, was watering plants when a nearly 2-metre-long alligator bit her leg just above the ankle.
"I just whacked him right in the snout with the nozzle," she said. "After that, he took off."
Gittles received three puncture wounds and some smaller scrapes and abrasions from her confrontation with the alligator.
A trapper working with wildlife officials later caught the animal in a nearby pond. It will be killed and the hide and meat sold.
The incident occurred as a newspaper report claimed a woman was killed by an alligator in Florida and then dragged into a canal.
The dismembered body of Yovy Suarez Jimenez, 28, of Davie, Florida was found by construction workers after she never returned from jogging the previous night.
"It is my professional opinion that the alligator attacked the woman while she was on land," Dr Joshua Perper, Broward County's medical examiner told The Miami Herald.
"She died of traumatic injuries sustained by an alligator attack, a mixture of blood loss and shock, and in my opinion died very fast."
Perper ruled out drowning because little water was found in her stomach and lungs, according to a story on the paper's website.
A woman matching Jimenez's description had been seen dangling her feet over the water's edge, but no one saw an attack.
Trappers will try to catch and kill the animal and the contents of its stomach will be examined, Pino said.
"When they are hungry they can be very, very aggressive and attack for food purposes," the newspaper quoted Perper as saying.
There have been 25 fatal alligator attacks in Florida since 1948, according to the wildlife commission.
Now there's a mental image I can do without...
