The Texas Progressive Alliance brings you the highlights from the blogs.
As the deadline to file for a place on the 2010 March primary ballot drew near, there was lots of activity on the Democratic side: Kinky Friedman followed Hank Gilbert over to the race for agriculture commissioner, Linda [...]
The Texas Progressive Alliance brings you the highlights from the blogs.
As the deadline to file for a place on the 2010 March primary ballot drew near, there was lots of activity on the Democratic side: Kinky Friedman followed Hank Gilbert over to the race for agriculture commissioner, Linda [...]
Hank Gilbert, the Democratic rancher from Whitehouse, filed to run against Kinky Friedman in the race to become Agriculture Commissioner.
Gilbert said he will represent the small and mid-sized farm that have been locked out of decision-making in Austin by "big factory farmers and their high powered lobbyists."
The winner [...]
He wears a cowboy hat and presents a rustic persona, but does Kinky Friedman meet the legal qualifications to become state agriculture commissioner, the position he is seeking in the March 2 Democratic primary?
That was a question posed in Capitol Inside, an online political news publication, which cited a requirement [...]
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Call it a little humor among friends. Or one more tale from the Texas Democratic menagerie. Kinky Friedman, moments after filing for agriculture commissioner today, recounted for reporters how he tried to talk his friend Farouk Shami [...]
Entertainer-author Kinky Friedman runs an animal rescue program and has lived on his family's Hill Country ranch, which has an ag exemption on property taxes, according to an aide. But is that enough to qualify him to be state agriculture commissioner?
Mike Hailey, editor of Capitol Inside,' [...]
Fellow Democratic gubernatorial contender Hank Gilbert, a rancher, also moved to the ag race today [...]
In what has to be one of the stupidest decisions ever made by someone seeking office, Kinky Friedman, mediocre author and appalling bad entertainer, announced today that he would challenge Hank Gilbert to be the Democratic Party's nominee for Commissioner of Agriculture.
Yep. Someone whose only real experience with agriculture [...]
Today's announcement from Kinky Friedman that he's jumping to the agriculture commissioner race instantly raised the question of who Friedman will endorse for governor.
Looks like no one.
Friedman spokeswoman Rania Batrice said Friedman did not discuss an endorsement in his conversations with gubernatorial candidates Bill White and Farouk Shami, adding that [...]
As we reported on Twitter two weeks ago, Kinky Friedman has abandoned his quest for governor next year. Instead, the singer/songwriter/mystery novelist/humorist/cowboy bon vivant says he'll file for Texas agriculture commissioner. Friedman finished fourth in the governor's race four years ago, where he ran as an independent. This time, he's' [...]
After more than a year of planning a second run for the Governor's Mansion, humorist Kinky Friedman dropped out of the governor's race today.
Friedman plans to run for Agricultural Commissioner instead, the same [...]
The Texas Tribune has the scoop:
Friedman finalized his decision after meeting with Democratic gubernatorial candidates Bill White and Farouk Shami separately over the weekend. Friedman campaign consultant Colin Strother described the meetings with both men as "very, very good", but Friedman is [...]
Kinky Friedman's book tour made two stops in Montgomery County on Saturday where he also made some news. He has hinted that he will drop out of the Texas Governor's race and is seriously considering entering another statewide race like Lt. Governor or Agriculture Commissioner. [...]
