Elections

I hope I'm not the only one in Texas and other states that are voting for new governors, Congressmen and State Representatives that believes campaign speeches are getting progressively into 'dirty fighting'. I cannot believe some of the things that these people are saying about one another and the worse it gets the more people will vote for them.

I watched "Bill Maher" this past weekend and the guests that were on believe that the one who is the nastiest appear to be the strongest and therefore more people will vote for them. That is probably true for the people who don't do 'due diligence' about their candidates. But it seems they must notice that things aren't right with their present adminstration, or is it a fact that the evil one knows about is better than the one they don't know about?

Here in Texas our present governor has done nothing for the people of Texas during his four year term and now that it's election time, he's suddenly doing everything that everyone complained that he wasn't doing for four years. He's admitted that he would just wait because more people pay attention during the election year. He has implemented plans to do all the things he should have done before. WTF? Is this fair? What the 'dirty politics' does do is bring to the forefront the faults and self-serving incumbent's past performances. This incumbent has more money to spend by far than the other candidates because of his favors to big business and his buddies. He has a large war chest thanks to them.

Kinky Friedman has a grassroots following, has had more single contribution although small than any of the other cancidates and he's not a politician. He genuinely cares about the people of Texas, it's children and it's teachers.

This is actually the very first time in my life that I have contributed to person's political campaign because I believe he is not self-serving. He is running as an independent. The present Governor has implemented a plan to split up the voting districts so that certain areas cannot win against him and his Republican party. This proposal went to Congress for the vote (naturally it's overwhelmed by Republicans) and this proposal passed into law. He has privately made deals with independent contractors to sell them State Park Land, has contracted with a foreign insurance company which is run by his former state employees for health insurance. Now there are 100,000 children in Texas without health insurance. But you know, he's a good looking guy and has charisma so what's not to like, huh? (I'm being sarcastic here.)

Well I voted early this year just to make sure I got my vote in. We have 6 days left until election day. I wish this blog could become public, I want to get all those people who don't usually vote at all to get out there and vote for Kinky Friedman.