Candidate Calls for 10,000 Border Troops
Kinky Friedman, the proudly politically incorrect entertainer running for governor, said in Houston that he wouldn’t put just 1,500 National Guard troops on the Texas-Mexico border; he’d send 10,000.
“We’ve waited 153 years for the feds to help us,” Friedman said. “They haven’t yet. We have our own army. I want 10,000 Texas National Guard troops on the border and I want them now.”
With campaign slogans like “He’s Not Kinky, He’s My Governor,” Friedman is running a rebel campaign as an independent against Republican Gov. Rick Perry. Also in the race are Democrat Chris Bell, Libertarian James Werner and independent Carole Strayhorn, the state comptroller.
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