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		<title>Kinky Friedman: The Anti-Toll Road, Pro-Gambling and Pot Candidate Takes Another Stab at the Governor&#8217;s Mansion</title>
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      facebookFriedman with Willie Nelson at a September 16 fund-raiser in Plano.Governor Rick Perry and U.S. Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison are sure to grab most of the headlines between now and the March 2 primary elections as they trade insults while seeking the Republican gubernatorial nomination, but Kinky Friedman spices up an otherwise bland field of Democratic candidates. The author and musician who's never afraid to say what's on his mind aims to stop the use of toll roads, legalize gambling, decriminalize marijuana use and reform the education and criminal justice systems.

"My slogan is Power to the People," Friedman tells Unfair Park. "I think that power's been hijacked by people like Rick Perry, politicians, special interests, big corporations and lobbyists. That power needs to be returned to the people. I can't do it nationally, but I think I can do it in Texas."

Friedman, who received 12.6 percent of the vote when he ran for governor in 2006, says he should have realized not to run as an independent because the only one to successfully do so in Texas was Sam Houston. "We came in there with nothing -- no money as an independent candidate. When you say that, you've got to figure out what [2006 Democratic nominee] Chris Bell would have got if he'd run as an independent. He wouldn't have gotten 13 percent. He would have gotten 1 percent if he were lucky."

Former state representative and Texas Rangers president Tom Schieffer, rancher Hank Gilbert, ex-Railroad Commission nominee Mark Thompson and teacher Felix Alvarado are also vying for the Democratic nomination, and Friedman stresses that he'll endorse whoever wins. "I would prefer any Democrat to Rick or Kay," he says. How does he stack up with Schieffer? "Oh, I don't even think about him. I don't know him -- never met him. I just know his smarter, older brother Bob."
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