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Kinky Goes Straight to the Democratic Party

By Jennifer Siegel September 6, 2007

After finishing fourth in last year’s gubernatorial race in Texas, provocateur and vehement political independent Kinky Friedman has announced he’s mulling a rematch in 2010 – as a Democrat.

“If God was running as an independent (in 2006), he couldn’t have beat Rick Perry,” Kinky recently told the Associated Press.

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