Carole Keeton Strayhorn turned in over 200,000 signatures to the Texas State Secretary today, Frontburner reports that Kinky will turn in well over 100,000 signatures.
AP reported that Strayhorn had paid workers gathering signatures and I do believe all of Kinky’s signatures were gathered by volunteers, but don’t quote me on that.
Both independent candidates for Texas Governor were required to get 45,400 signatures by the May 11 deadline.
An e-mail from Kinky’s camp this week said Kinky would present his signatures tomorrow at noon.
Kinky over six figures
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I do know that CKS was paying $1.50/signature. One of my clients was collecting signatures for her and earned easily $80-100/day. I have heard that Kinky paid some $1.00/signature but I don’t recall where I read that information.
CKS was campaigning in the Love Field airport a few weeks ago when we were flying back to Nashville. She was on our flight to Houston and asked us to sign her list. She was not happy with us when we told her we weren’t eligible.
Kinky’s thoughts on border security and other foreign policy issues is RIGHT ON THE MONEY!
Kinky discussed his ideas the illegal Mexican alien problem with the Texarkana Gazette:
“Mexico is not a poor country…all of these politicians are afraid of offending Hispanics. I want the border off the evening news until we get something resolved.”
Kinky’s right! And he’s been saying that Mexico ain’t poor for better than a year now. Here’s a another story out of the Kilgore News Herald, where Kinky says “Mexico is not a poor country.”
Here’s some other interesting stuff out of that Kilgore News Herald story:
“I am going to see non-denominational prayer and the Ten Commandments put back in the schools.â€
Friedman said the Ten Commandments might have to be called the ten rules or something similar but they need to be back in the schools. “They say this is part of my wussification campaign but, as my spiritual advisor Billy Jo Schafer says, “If you don’t love Jesus, go to hell.â€
One of Friedman’s most unusual ideas addresses border security.
He proposes creating what he calls the Five Mexican Generals plan. As he lays it out, the border with Mexico would be divided into five pieces with a Mexican general responsible for each. A $1 million trust fund would be created for each general.
“When I talk about the five Mexican generals, people think I’m joking but I’m dead serious,†said Friedman. “I will divide the border into five jurisdictions, assigning one Mexican general to each and providing a trust fund for that general. Every time a person crosses illegally, we subtract $5,000 from the trust fund.â€
Kinky also spoke with Ruminator Magazine about his thoughts on Bush’s foreign policy:
Ruminator: So does this idea of the honorable cowboy have anything to do with why you threw your support behind President Bush in this last election? You did, didn’t you?
Kinky: Yes. I did in this last election, but I didn’t vote for him the first time….I was not for Bush that time. Since then, though, we’ve become friends. And that’s what’s changed things.
Ruminator: So it’s your friendship with him that’s changed your mind about having him as president more than his specific political positions?
Kinky: Well, actually, I agree with most of his political positions overseas, his foreign policy….I basically think he played a poor hand well after September 11. What he’s been doing in the Near East and in the Middle East, he’s handling that well, I think.
Kinky is Awesome!