Platform of Texas Gubenatorial Candidate

Texas Monthly: Story Preview: "From the January 2005 Issue...

Dome Improvement [/] As your governor, I�ll tell the truth, give power to young people, and send Californians packing. Have I mentioned my plan to invade Oklahoma? [/] by Kinky Friedman [My comment: "Promises, promises ..."]

MANY OF US REMEMBER, in that dim and distant corridor of childhood, a book titled If I Ran the Zoo. What�s that? You don�t remember reading it? Okay. Push pause.

There once was a zoo that some folks liked to call Texas politics. In this zoo were doves and hawks, bulls and bears, crocodiles and two-legged snakes, and lots and lots and lots of sheep. But the ones who ran the zoo were not really animals. They were people dressed up in elephant and donkey suits who�d lined their pockets long ago and now went around lying to everybody and making all the rules. Even as a child, I knew I never wanted to be one of them, a perfunctory, political party hack. This did not stop me, of course, from growing up to be a party animal.
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