Web Sightings
By Karl-Thomas Musselman
So in the Daily Texan article about Chris Bell filing for Governor, it looks like we have received our first official media mention of Bob Gammage's intentions to move from prospective candidate to 'running'.
Bob Gammage, another prospective Democratic candidate for governor, said he plans to file before Christmas. Gammage said his campaign will tackle statewide corruption, incompetence and, like Bell, a constitutional public school finance plan. So far, Texas Comptroller Carole Keeton Strayhorn is running as a candidate for the Republican party. Other major candidates include Texas novelist and musician Kinky Friedman, who is running as an independent candidate.
Though of course, let's not forget about Larry Kilgore, the only candidate to display a dead baby picture on his campaign homepage. I'm wondering what happened to the Rhett Smith or Jennifer Gale for Governor campaigns. Maybe Jennifer Gale endorsed Chris Bell. If so, I offer this picture for the campaign blog.
In other news, we have two Texan of the Year: Carter Casteel sightings in the Texas Media.
FW Star-Telegram: If People magazine can choose the "Sexiest Man Alive" and Barbara Walters can deem herself the last word on who is fascinating, then why can't a bunch of bloggers pick the Texan of the Year?
A group of Texas political bloggers asked for nominations from readers and searched their own souls before voting on their choice. The winner, announced recently on all of the blogs, was Rep. Carter Casteel of New Braunfels. The pick was a surprising one considering the 17 bloggers skew liberal and Casteel is a Republican.
The bloggers said they picked Casteel for her decision to go against her own party earlier this year in the school-funding saga and her strong opposition to school vouchers. She also opposed a measure that would have banned gay foster parents, although she voted for the recently signed gay marriage amendment, which was opposed by most of the blogs.
Kuff also points out some mention of Rep. Casteel in this post.
Posted by Karl-Thomas Musselman at December 12, 2005 03:35 PM
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Larry Kilgore certainly has some interesting positions on the burning issues for Texans. Apparently the budget problems would be solved by just not funding anything.
Not sure about all these lashes. Sounds a little S&M to me. But I do like the paying double for stealing. But I doubt Ken Lay has that much money left.
Is it possible he's been reading too much Betty Bowers and doesn't realize it's parody?
While the concept of selling products to raise funds mike raise a joke or two, Id like to point out it is a rather hot selling item. The first batch all went for $100 each and were signed by Kinky as a collectors item. I know first hand that it was a hot item and many were sold.
This idea comes from Ventura's campaign in which he sold action dolls and was able to raise a great deal of money from it.
Moreover, Kinky recieves alot of funds from merch sales at his events all across the state. So while jokes might be made about it, and yes the ethics commission has met about the issue, you have to recgonize the fact that its a clever idea and unique in its own right. Whats the smartest part about it? Maybe all the attention it recieves.
