Dateline: March 23, 2006

Kinky petition circulating 

By Roger Estlack, Clarendon Enterprise

The push is underway across Texas to get Richard “Kinky” Friedman and Carole Keeton Strayhorn on the November ballot as independent candidates for governor.

Friedman and Strayhorn must each gather 45,540 signatures of registered voters who did not vote in either the Democratic or Republican primaries this year, and they must have those signatures submitted to the Secretary of State’s office by May 11, 2006.

Clarendon attorney Jerry Courtney is heading the Friedman petition drive in Donley County, but no one has reported a Strayhorn petition being circulated locally. Voters can sign only one petition.

For more information about Friedman’s petition, contact Courtney at work at 874-3535, at home at 874-2626, or on his cell phone at 679-8652.