Kinky Friedman Is Running on Pot

[TexasTowelie]

Kinky Friedman hasn't smoked pot in more than 20 years, but that's not keeping him from running for Texas Agriculture Commissioner with legalizing cannabis as his main platform plank. So far, Democratic power brokers seem more willing to French-kiss a horned toad with bad breath than embrace Friedman's candidacy.

The "please, go away" looks are palpable, but no one really wants to debate this guy, look him in the eye or stand next to him in a photo op. You want to "out-Texas" Kinky Friedman? Go ahead on.

So now, if high-profile Alvin fastballer Nolan Ryan enters the fray on the Republican ticket as he has hinted, the race for Texas Agriculture Commissioner just might be Texas's top political circus of 2014 bar none, the stuff CNN and Fox and MSNBC can turn into CarMax ads for weeks and weeks. Even without Ryan, the race has the potential to create interesting ripples in a state that has been solidly red for two decades.

Don't worry about the fact that a recent national Gallup poll indicated 58 percent of Americans now favor full legalization and that most recent polls show the same percentage in Texas. Don't worry that the Agriculture Commissioner can't actually enact a law legalizing pot. Just understand that the Friedman camp plans to frame the race as a statewide referendum on legalization. Period.

More at http://www.houstonpress.com/2013-11-21/news/kinky-friedman/ .

[Gothmog]

1. Kinky is in this race solely for Kinky

The man does not care about the Democratic Party or anyone not named Kinky Friedman

[Scuba]

2. Much the same can be said for DiFi and dozens of other Democrats.

At least he's funny and relatively harmless.

[Javaman]

4. +1 nt

[Blue Owl]

3. Kinky's fried, man...

[thevoiceofreason]

5. nah. Kinky is running on ego (and empty)

Gad I wish Hank would run again. And beat Kinky. Again.