Saving my Vote for Kinky

Next month, the State of Texas will hold primaries for 2006 election candidates. In Texas registered voters are free to vote in either the Democratic or Republican primaries. Independent candidates have to wait after the primaries and collect enough signatures to have their names placed on the ballot in November. The catch is, only voters who did not participate in the primaries can sign such petitions.

That is why I am not voting in the primaries, as I am saving my vote for Kinky Friedman, who is running for the office of Governor of Texas. Voters are disenfranchised these days, as our so-called established parties are caught in their own spin. Meanwhile no one is representing the interests of the average person.