Some candidates question Democratic effort to shape a Texas ticket
Kinky Friedman opened his remarks to the Texas A&M College Democrats with some well-worn drollery.
“Hello I’m David Dewhurst,” said Friedman, dressed in his trademark black cowboy duds. After the laughter subsided, “Well hell, I’m 69 years old, though I read at the 71-year-old level, and I got my last will and testament worked out now, and when I die I’m to be cremated and the ashes are to be thrown into Rick Perry’s hair.”
Friedman, best known as a singer and comedian, is running for the Democratic nomination for agriculture commissioner, his third attempt at statewide office. He laid out “the spiritual overlay” of his campaign in College Station on Monday: “I have framed it as a referendum to legalize pot and hemp in the state of Texas.”
And he confronted the most common knock on him: “The party insiders say, ‘He’s not serious; Kinky’s not serious.’”
More at http://www.statesman.com/news/news/some-candidates-question-democratic-effort-to-shap/ndYjy/ .
[font color=green]I don't know why Kinky has the reporter's attention, but the rest of the article provides a decent summary of the choices that Democrats will face in Texas primaries and Davis' endorsement of Alameel over Scherr in the race for US Senate.
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