Lately I’ve found myself unusually p*ssed off most of the time, so I read about issues related to anger and aggression, I learned that: Anger is typically defined as a set of “feelings†that are not motivated by any particular goal.
Anger has three components:
affective, referring to emotions such as annoyance and frustration;
behavioral, which [...]
Folks it’s been a long wild ride since that chilly morning in front of the Alamo. Many of you guys and gals have been following and supporting Kinky Friedman for over a year, some for months, some just converted, and some of you are taking your time to really understand what the big deal about Kinky Friedman is.
For me, its being motivated to actually care about Texas. To understand that what is expected of me is to stay home, consume, and to not care. And for it to be common public humor that the young don’t vote, show us someone worth voting for and we will.
There comes a point in time when we will have exhausted all means of showing Texans how important this gubernatorial election is for Texas, America, and the world, and that day is approaching exponentially faster than Rick Perry’s receding hair line.
Kinky Friedman has overcome all odds stacked against him. Getting on the ballot despite critics saying he wouldn’t, amassing a base of independents although critics said he couldn’t, surging in likely voter polls which critics argued he wouldn’t, leading hands down in most other polls that don’t target the 29% that voted in 2002, out fundraising the Democratic challenger which appeared to be unlikely, and now there is only one obstacle left to hurdle. Earning more votes than the other candidates. That’s what this races comes down to. While other candidates believe votes automatically belong to a certain party, Kinky Friedman believes votes are earned and belong to the people of Texas. We’re all independents at heart.
Both parties have been hijacked by the extremes of each side, leaving us with no one worth voting for. As soon as you say that previous sentence I wrote to a Republican… BOOM, you’re labeled an unpatriotic Democrat and vice versa. This is simply not true. I am independent. I am moderate. I believe a vast majority of Texans are the same way, but they are too afraid of being labeled that they keep those opinions to themselves.
I think it is extremely important for moderates to vote and even run for office no matter how much the two major parties want to attempt to stop us from doing so. Why? Because I believe, as well as most Kinky supporters, that there are more than two ways of thought out there in America. With Kinky Friedman running, another option is finally presented to people who are tired of choosing the lesser of two evils. These two evils, the CURRENT Republican and Democratic parties, have continually turned out candidates who clearly do NOT work for the people, but rather the highest bidder. They hide behind a platform, rally their bases, argue back and forth until people like you and me no longer feel the urge to vote, then waltz into office to help their highest bidders progress.
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Here’s how my conversations with fence-sitters and undecideds about Kinky Friedman usually go.
Any random person: What’s the big deal about him anyway? Where does he stand?
You know the first thing he’s gonna do when he gets elected….demand a recount. He says never re-elect anyone, including himself. The second thing is install a listed phone number to his office where you and me can call during certain hours everyday and speak directly with him to talk about the issues that are bothering us. I’ve even read somewhere he would try to start a Texas Radio talk show with these calls to reconnect with the people of Texas, his only special interest group. Did you know he recently returned a large contribution from some Houston special interest group?
Most of the people who haven’t researched the race but plan to vote are already convinced by this point, but many continue:
Any random person: Yeah but an Independent can’t win in Texas.
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Kinky Friedman’s only special interest group is the people of Texas. We’re doing great in voter turnout so far, but we need to keep pushing till the end. Tell all your friends and family who aren’t quite convinced about Kinky to read We Beg To Differ and watch this interview of how real Kinky is.
There’s one more major deadline – besides November 7th – facing the campaign. Next Tuesday, Oct. 31, is the last day we can buy media time before election day. We need every dollar we can get to keep Kinky on televisions statewide.
Last month, we returned a sizeable contribution from a Houston-based PAC, keeping our promise that we will not take money from the lobbyists and special interests. So we ask you – Kinky’s ONLY special interest group – one last time to dig deep. The ads that run in the last few days factor heavily in the minds of many voters who still haven’t made up their minds. Let’s get Kinky’s message out there so Texans can compare our commercials to the relentless attack ads coming from the rest of the pack!
You could also just buy a piece of history to help the campaign.
At the end of the night, you dance with the person who brought you to the dance. Even at a time of unparalleled mudslinging in Texas politics, this is one rule of etiquette virtually every politician follows.
This is why it makes sense that Rick Perry and Chris Bell and Carol Strayhorn have spent much of the campaign bickering over whose financial backers are more detestable. Is it more dangerous to have one trial lawyer backing a candidate, as is the case with Chris Bell, or a whole platoon of them? Who’s worse, ethically speaking, the guy who’s major investors are profiting from the Trans-Texas corridor he helped implement, or the guy whose entire candidacy is predicated on big money from one source?
The answer, of course, is that we shouldn’t have to choose between these sort of candidates and these sort of backers. We don’t want any special interests purchasing our leaders – the idea that our major party candidates (and Grandma) think we should vote for them because the other guy’s buyers are worse is laughable. When Chris Bell (correctly) calls Rick Perry a hypocrite for attacking the man propping up the Bell campaign, he ignores the fact that Rick Perry can be hypocrite without Chris Bell being much better.
Kinky Friedman’s the only candidate in this race who’s drawn the vast majority of his support from average citizens. And he’s the only candidate, once the election’s over and he’s elected Governor, who’ll be loyal to those citizens come dancin’ time.
Kinky Friedman and his campaign for governor have received undue criticism in recent weeks for “lack of substance.”
Today, we unveiled a health care initiative that is more comprehensive and detailed than those of any of our oppponents. Unlike the rhetoric and empty promises of other candidates, we lay out in clear and simple terms how TexasCare will work; we even tell you how it will be funded.
We have based TexasCare on a model similar to the one used in Minnesota, a state that is leading the nation in coverage and that’s been called one of the best health care reform models in the country. Our state demographics are vastly different, but the concepts and funding mechanisms will carry over.
If you’ve only been hearing the sound bites and reading the headlines, you’ll get the idea that this campaign is nothing but a series of one-liners. We beg to differ.
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