looks like she's the first with 115,000 signatures... hopefully kinky will blow that number out of the water. http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcon...06/stories/050206dntexstrayhorn.115d58e4.html
bumping an old thread, and replying to my own post... 2 things one shouldn't do, but... HOLY COW - 169,000 signatures for kinky, and i was thinking that strayhorn was gonna have more.... http://www.kinkyfriedman.com/2006/05/kinky_friedman_turns_in_169000.html edit - nevermind, i guess she did with 223,000; but still, 169,000 is a good sign. when i signed, i was talking to the denton county coordinator, and he was saying that 100,000 would be nice....
If UH was any indication, there were guys that had both petitions on campus. From what I saw, lots of people agreed to sign Kinky's but almost everyone said "no thanks" for StrayCat.
On top of that, Strayhorn's sigs were gathered by a hired petition circulating company, while Friedman's sigs were gathered by volunteers.
I'm out of the loop on this one - someone please tell me who Strayhorn is and why I should (or should not) vote for her. Her website is the usual uninformative political tripe.
She's a Republican insider, the State Comptroller, who is running as an Independent simply because she had no chance of beating Rick Perry in the Republican primary. The only true independent candidate for governor is Kinky Friedman.
carol keaton-mcclellan-rylander-strayhorn is also the mother of scott mcclellan. that alone would make me not ever vote for her. she also likes divorces. maybe she should hook up w/ limbaugh - 4th time is the charm!
Strayhorn btw started her life as a Democrat, albeit a yellow dog Democrat. She is betting that she can not beat Perry in a Republican primary but can beat him in a general election runoff. To do this, she will have to get more votes than either the Democratic nominee (Bell?) or Kinky to make the runoff. Polls have shown that she could take down Perry in general election runoff. I am not sure Bell or Kinky make a similar boast. It is still too early to take polls seriously though. There is no doubt in my mind that Strayhorn would make a better governor than The Haircut. Given Texas's conservative political climate, running as a right of center independent may be the only way that The Haircut can be taken down. We will see.