Perry knocks Strayhorn

After the secretary of state certified petitions for independent gubernatorial candidates Kinky Friedman and Carole Strayhorn last week, Gov. Rick Perry’s campaign suggested that the voters in the state have abandoned Strayhorn.
Friedman’s campaign delivered 170,258 signatures to the Secretary of State’s office on May 11. Of those, 81 percent or 137,154 signatures were considered valid.
Strayhorn’s campaign submitted 222,514 signatures of which 49 percent or 108,512 were valid.
“Carole Strayhorn has gotten caught trying to pull another fast one on the people of Texas,” Texans for Rick Perry spokesman Robert Black said. “First she tried to say she had 101 boxes of signatures when in fact she only had 12, and now we know that more than half of the signatures she turned in were not even valid. It is obvious that her shrill act is wearing thin with Texans because now even Kinky Friedman has more support than Carole Strayhorn. After abandoning two political parties and two philosophies for her own political ambition, it appears Texans have had enough and have abandoned Carole Strayhorn.”