(And this just breaking, the Halloween Peeps have withdrawn their endorsement! - promoted by Karl-Thomas Musselman)
AUSTIN – Supporters of entertainer turned politician Kinky Friedman expressed shock and disappointment Tuesday night after they spent a fruitless evening in pumpkin patches from El Paso to Texarkana.
“I was sure that the Great Pumpkin would rise over the pumpkin patch and give us candy,” one Friedman supporter said. “We spent hours trolling internet message boards and voting for the Great Pumpkin multiple times in unscientific on-line polls,” he explained, “I can’t believe the Great Pumpkin didn’t rise.”
When asked whether the campaign focused on registering new voters for the Great Pumpkin, Laura Stromberg said, “no, but have you seen how many out-of-state MySpace and Facebook accounts we have generated among 14 to 17 year olds?”
While supporters of Kinky Friedman are universally disappointed in the failure of the Great Pumpkin to rise this Halloween, they remain confident that Friedman will prevail on November 7. When asked to comment, one Friedman supporter summed up the crowd’s sentiments. “We’re totally not throwing our vote away on a fictional candidate or a novelty campaign,” he said, adding “Dude, can I share some of your Halloween candy?” |
