Perry's Boots were made for walkin: Right out of the Gov's Mansion !

Kinky forces infiltrate Capitol; no one booted
Perry gracious in face of three Friedman visitors.
By W. Gardner Selby
AMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFF

Tuesday, May 23, 2006

Strange: Kinky Friedman's campaign director and another Kinky loyalist dallied with Gov. Rick Perry on Monday and even walked off with a pair of Perry's boots.
Stranger: No one brought up Friedman hoping to boot Perry from power.
Gov. Rick Perry didn't seem to mind that Dean Barkley, left, Kinky Friedman's campaign director, and another Kinky supporter won his boots. The money will go to the Texas Disaster Relief Fund.
Paul Hines of San Antonio, a Friedman supporter, won the gubernatorial invite by bidding $4,050 in an online auction for two pairs of boots, one owned by Perry and the other by California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, with proceeds benefitting the Texas Disaster Relief Fund.
The hand-crafted boots were donated in a Rose Bowl wager.
Dean Barkley, Friedman's campaign director, was Hines' silent bidding partner. Hines' son, Sam, 13, wearing a Friedman shirt under his duds, also made the trip to the Capitol.
Barkley says he told the governor: "There's a lot of people wanting to fill your shoes. This is a quick and cheap way of doing it."
Perry let that slide.
"The governor is very gracious," gubernatorial spokeswoman Kathy Walt said. "It was an auction for a good cause. It doesn't matter where the dollars came from."
Sam Hines gets to wear Perry's boots this week "so he can be a chick magnet," said Barkely, who plans to keep the boots after that. "Those are going to be my good luck boots."

source: http://www.statesman.com/news/content/news/stories/local/05/23kinky.html
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Perry does a quickstep as rival camp takes spotlight
Friedman aide, backer win governors' boots at storm victim benefit
06:34 AM CDT on Tuesday, May 23, 2006
By PETE SLOVER / The Dallas Morning News

AUSTIN – When the winners of a hurricane-relief auction showed up to claim two pairs of autographed gubernatorial cowboy boots, Gov. Rick Perry took a kick in the shins.
One of the boot buyers turned out to be Dean Barkley, campaign manager of independent gubernatorial candidate and Perry opponent Kinky Friedman. For $4,050, he and a fellow Friedman supporter took home the shiny, new Perry boots, size 13, and a used pair donated by California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger.
The governor cracked a couple of jokes about sweaty feet and holes in socks and wrapped up a packed news conference in under 45 seconds, with no mention of hurricane relief or the Rose Bowl wager that led to the auction.
"Thank you. We appreciate you guys," he said, tossing a pointed farewell over his shoulder as he headed for the door. "So long."
Mr. Barkley, a self-described memorabilia junkie, said there was no political dirty trickery intended, no aim to hijack the governor's feel-good media event – just the signed, black Justin calfskins.
"We're respectful, but it was a nice chance to fill the governor's boots – early," said Mr. Barkley. "I am going to put them on my mantel and look at them every day."
Before running the election effort of Mr. Friedman, a songwriter-turned-author-turned-politician, Mr. Barkley oversaw the successful 1998 campaign of Minnesota wrester-turned-mayor-turned-governor Jesse "the Body" Ventura.
His fellow purchaser and Friedman supporter, telecommunications executive Paul Hines, beat out five other bidders, using the eBay handle "wrapitup-and-chargit." Mr. Hines, president of San Antonio Telephone Co. Inc., said he'll give his 13-year-old son, Sam, the slightly worn, size-13 crocodile kicks donated by Mr. Schwarzenegger.
The boots were the subject of a friendly wager between the governors over the outcome of the Jan. 4 Rose Bowl won by the University of Texas Longhorns over the University of Southern California Trojans. The state leaders agreed they would be auctioned together to benefit the winning governor's designated charity.
Mr. Perry established the Texas Disaster Relief Fund in September to help citizens and communities in need after hurricanes Katrina and Rita.
E-mail pslover@dallasnews.com

source: http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/texassouthwest/stories/DN-boot_23tex.ART.State.Edition1.13048302.html

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Note from Steve: Surprised Perry didn't pull a JBL ! Who's JBL ? Jest ask KXYL's JC Mclain to tell you about JBL buying his own donated boots at the ACU fundraiser !

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Layfield