Hey, I don't know anything else about him and I don't live in Texas but I like the way this guy (Kinky Friedman, candidate for governor in Texas) thinks:
"I don't eat tamales in the barrio, I don't eat fried chicken in the ghetto, I don't eat bagels with the Jews for breakfast," said Friedman, who is Jewish. "That to me is true racism."
"If I've got to lie to people, sweep the truth under the rug and worry about offending people, I'm not going to be very effective," Friedman said.
Honesty.. that's a refreshing concept in politics!
On the other hand, gubernatorial candidate and professional wiseacre Kinky Friedman was accused Wednesday of making another racially offensive remark _ this time in a year-old interview in which he said sexual predators should be thrown in prison and forced to "listen to a Negro talking to himself."
The independent candidate already was under fire for referring to Hurricane Katrina evacuees in Texas as "crackheads and thugs." That remark was taken as a slap at black victims of the storm.
http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/09/20/D8K8NAD00.html
What are your views?
"I don't eat tamales in the barrio, I don't eat fried chicken in the ghetto, I don't eat bagels with the Jews for breakfast," said Friedman, who is Jewish. "That to me is true racism."
"If I've got to lie to people, sweep the truth under the rug and worry about offending people, I'm not going to be very effective," Friedman said.
Honesty.. that's a refreshing concept in politics!
On the other hand, gubernatorial candidate and professional wiseacre Kinky Friedman was accused Wednesday of making another racially offensive remark _ this time in a year-old interview in which he said sexual predators should be thrown in prison and forced to "listen to a Negro talking to himself."
The independent candidate already was under fire for referring to Hurricane Katrina evacuees in Texas as "crackheads and thugs." That remark was taken as a slap at black victims of the storm.
http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/09/20/D8K8NAD00.html
What are your views?
