You'll know KINKY FRIEDMAN by his WALK !
Just look at the number of Restaurants and " Mom and Pops" who are involved in getting KINKY on the Ballot
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Take a peak below at who's working to get Kinky on the Ballot.......
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Based on the excerpt below from one of Kinky Friedmans Texas Monhly Columns, it makes sense that Restaurant owners across the state would be supporting Kinky's "Common Sense" campaign of treating " everyone" equally !
From Texas Monthly Magazine
Keep Gomorrah Weird
The rest of Texas vilifies Austin as a breeding ground for long-haired hell-raisers. To me, it’s an open-minded, open-hearted, magical little town—and always will be.
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" In my bright college days we pretty much took for granted that Austin was far more progressive than the outlying provinces. Looking back, I’m not so sure that was entirely true. In the early sixties there was a place called the Plantation Restaurant at the corner of the Drag and what was then Nineteenth Street. It was open 24 hours, many of which were spent by me and my friends drinking endless cups of blue coffee and solving the problems of the world as we knew it—and I think that, at times, we very possibly knew the world better then than we know it now. One thing that didn’t really seem to register at the ol’ Plantation, however, was that, among the bikers, fraternity boys, and square-dance clubs, there were no black patrons. It took me awhile, but as a card-carrying member of Students for a Democratic Society, I finally lamped upon this inequity. With my fellow SDSers, we picketed night after night, at last forcing the restaurant to change its policies. Today the Plantation, which I both loved and protested against, is gone, and the street where it used to be is no longer known as Nineteenth Street. It is now called Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard. In a world of shopping malls and glass towers, that, my friends, is real progress."
to read his columns in their entirity please visit http://www.texasmonthly.com/mag/issues/authors/kinkyfriedman.php
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You'll know them (him) by their fruit !
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