Sorry Woodrow. The Texas Tribune reports:
Iconic Texas entertainer and perennial politician Kinky Friedman plans to endorse Libertarian gubernatorial candidate Kathie Glass, which presents him with a problem: “I already said I would endorse Woodrow the dog,” he explains. “He’ll have to be my animal endorsement, and Kathie will be my human endorsement.”
Friedman, who ran as an independent candidate for governor in 2006 and unsuccessfully sought the Democratic nomination for agriculture commissioner in 2010, says neither major party candidate is offering anything new. “As far as issues go, they’re not really different,” he says. “They are both for the death penalty, both against gambling — they probably agree on a lot of things.”
Friedman says has yet to meet anybody that’s gung-ho about either Republican candidate Gov. Rick Perry or Democrat Bill White, though he knows plenty are enthusiastically opposed to one or both of the “career politicians.” “I’m tempted to vote for Rick Perry against Washington,” he says, “and I’m tempted to vote for Bill White against Rick Perry.”
Though he admits a third party candidate is unlikely to win, Friedman first became taken with Glass after hearing her on the radio in San Antonio. “I liked her spirit,” he says. “I don’t think I’m voting against insiders. I’m voting for the outsider.” He says he has spoken with Glass on the telephone, but does not know when or how the campaign plans to announce his endorsement.
Friedman has had a growing connection with the Texas LP. He already endorsed Robert Nowotny, a Libertarian running a vigorous campaign against a first-term Republicna, for state representative. In addition, the humorist headlined the party’s state convention in June.
Honor missing in U.S.
Perhaps we need to be reminded that honor starts with doing the right thing in everyday living.
Is it honorable to continue to elect government officials who ignore and break the laws of our country and ignore the will of the people who elected them?
Is it honorable that elected officials bail out mega-companies that send jobs overseas and give multimillion-dollar salaries and incentives to CEOs who run the companies into the red on the premise that they are too big to fail?
Perhaps inquiring minds need to think more.
Donna Wagner, Nevada, Mo.
Read more: http://www.kansascity.com/2010/10/12/2306475/letters-wednesday-oct-13.html#ixzz12IqlIhX8
Oops, just stumbled acrossed it,
and, on, http://www.newscientist.org
Wisconsin candidate Ron Johnson has said. “I think it’s far more likely that it’s just sun spot activity, or something just in the geological aeons (English English) of time.”
The most notorious Tea Party candidate, Delaware’s Christine O’Donnell, rejects evolution and opposes stem cell research and, more creatively, chimera research – which with typical cluelessness (English English) she thinks means growing human brains in mice.
There is great uncertainty over just how influential the Tea Party will be. It may actually damage the Republicans; the unelectable O’Donnell, for example, beat an eminently electable moderate to win her Senate nomination.
Alternatively, the momentum and sense of outrage that it has generated may swing the mid-term elections decisively in the Republicans’ favour (English English).
If that happens, there are serious implications for the Obama administration’s attempt to forge a reason-based and science-driven presidency.
The president has pledged to “restore science to its rightful place” in government, and minus the greatest prize of all – comprehensive climate and energy legislation – he has largely succeeded.
The administration is staffed with distinguished scientific leaders and advisers, and Obama himself embodies austere rationality and deliberativeness (English English), almost to a fault.
(TEA Party as anti science ……..)
Oddly enough Lake, I was working on an article on this just as you posted this. But thanks for the heads up!
AND ON THE LEFT COAST
Recently, it came to my attention that your opponent in the 8th congressional race, John Dennis, had challenged you to a debate and that you had declined his offer.
The press reported that when John Dennis spoke with you in Washington D.C., on September 23rd, you said you would “not be in the District enough” to debate him.
You did not offer more details explaining why that was the case. You also did not suggest the alternative of holding a debate in Washington nor did you make other arrangements to accommodate the democratic process.
——- Matt Gonzales, Green Party