Kinky Goes Straight to the Democratic Party
After finishing fourth in last year’s gubernatorial race in Texas, provocateur and vehement political independent Kinky Friedman has announced he’s mulling a rematch in 2010 – as a Democrat.
“If God was running as an independent (in 2006), he couldn’t have beat Rick Perry,” Kinky recently told the Associated Press.
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