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Kinky Friedman for Governor?

By "Persian Cowboy"

Kinky Friedman announced that he is running for the Democratic nomination for governor of Texas in the 2010 primary election. One of the main issues in his campaign platform is the abolition of the death penalty. In 2005, while running for the governor of Texas as an independent candidate, he was approached by a group of TSADP members at a Border's bookstore in San Antonio asking him about his support of the death penalty. After book reading, he signed a TMN petition in support of a moratorium on executions. The Kinkster said that his main concern was to focus and to be ?Damn sure we won?t execute the wrong guy?. Mr. Friedman went so far as to boldly state he would find an alternative to Texas? ?Eject ?em or inject ?em? policy on the death penalty...continue to full post

Full post as published by Texas Death Penalty Blog on April 14, 2009 (boomark / email).