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Author-humorist Kinky Friedman ponders run for Texas governor.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
Byline: Art Chapman
Kinky Friedman _ novelist, humorist, essayist _ thinks he might want to be the next governor of Texas. He isn't announcing yet. He doesn't want to peak too soon.
"But if Lance Armstrong and Willie Nelson stay out of the race, you're probably talking to the next governor of Texas," he said this week by phone from his ranch near Medina in southwest Texas.
He quickly added, "Don't forget, man's ability to delude himself is infinite."
Friedman, who writes regularly for Texas Monthly, has always hovered around the edges of Texas politics, mostly as an observer, usually as a critic. Yet he never dared to enter the arena, except for that time he ran for justice of the peace in Kerrville ...
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