From the Austin American-Statesman, we get wind that Farouk Shami has announced his candidacy for Texas governor:
“I am in,” said Shami, 66, a political novice whose company sells CHI hair-straightening irons and BioSilk hair products. “I am 100 percent sure I will be the next governor of Texas.”
Mr. Shami has a few things working against him in his bid to become the next Governor of Texas. And being a Palestinian-born hairdresser is the least of them.
The bigger problem facing Mr. Shami is the fact that he’s running as a Democrat in Texas — where a (D) hasn’t won a statewide election since 1988.
My "Kinky Friedman talking action figure"
And why is Mr. Shami all of a sudden a “major player” in the race for Democrat? Well besides having nobody better than *Kinky Friedman throw his black cowboy hat into the ring so far to challenge incumbent Rick Perry (who will still be the Republican nominee after he throttles Kay Bailey Hutchison in the primary) — Mr. Shami is willing to try to buy his way into office:
Houston hair care executive Farouk Shami said Tuesday that he’s definitely running for governor and that he’ll put in $10 million for the Democratic primary alone…
For Capitol watchers who weren’t paying close attention to Shami’s declarations in recent months that he was thinking of running, his promise of $10 million of his own money might make them listen.
What a waste of $10 million dollars. Hell, he might as well just give it to me and be done with it. I’ll put the money to better use than his inevitably failed candidacy.
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* Did I mention that I have a Kinky Friedman talking action figure on my desk at work (from Kinky’s last failed run at the Governor’s office)?
My favorite of the dozen or so sayings loaded into Kinky: “Hell yes it’s a Cuban cigar. But I’m not support’n their economy, I’m burn’n their crops.”
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UPDATE: From the comments section at the Austin American-Statesman:
“Shami, a native of Palestine”, really, Palestine, did you mean Palestine Texas? That must be it because there is no such country by the name of Palestine except in Hamas approved text books in the Palestinian Authority. There may be one day and could have been however, the Arabs living in the West Bank and Gaza and other places in now the state of Israel threw that away in 48.
Shami got $10 million from the Texas Enterprise Fund (which Perry’s office controls) to move his manufacturing operations from China to Houston. Talk about biting the hand that fed you….
Is is Biting the hand that feeds you, or giving back to the local economy? Think about it. There is no real chance for Mr. Shami, so really he is just throwing that money into the Texas Economy.
Favorite Kinky Quote from last attempt, “I support gay marriage. I believe they have a right to be as miserable as the rest of us.”
just another damn muslim
NO, WE DO NOT WNAT A MUSLIM TO BE THE GOVERNER OF OUR GREAT STATE OF TEXAS.
WE HAVE ONE ALREADY IN OFFICE,HE WAS TO CHANGE THINGS, WELL HE HAS!
FOR THE WORST.
DO YOU THINK SHAMI WILL DO ANY BETTER WITH ALL HIS PROMISES HE HAS MADE FOR TEXAS???
HE WILL NOT GET MY VOTE.
I can not support any democrat. The health care issue is to large and important to be taken over by the government.
right on mary
send th donks out to pasture waaaayyyyy ooouuuutttt !
Funny story about Shami.
I happened into a dining area, and several tables had his campaign brochures(all in red/white/blue) laying on them.
I saw a couple of guys glancing at one, so I picked one up and looked it over. Lots of words and a smiling photo, but nothing that identified him as a donk. I kept looking, and finally spotted the donk logo stamped in a tiny image on the bottom of the back page. I told those two guys this guy Shami would never be Governor. They asked how I knew, and I pointed to the tiny jackass. They both scoffed at the symbol of the donks, and agreed he had no chance.
HA!
Let’s show that we mean business
by Farouk Shami
30 August 2007
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HOUSTON, Texas – Presidents and prime ministers, secretaries of state and special envoys have spent nearly six decades trying to solve the seemingly intractable Palestinian/Israeli issue.
I am not a politician. I am a businessman. And I know what those who want peace also surely must know. There cannot be peace without economic development and justice.
I came to America in 1964 from a small village in Palestine. I had little money in my pocket and washed dishes in restaurants to pay for my college tuition. Today, I run a $400 million beauty products company that employs more than 10,000 Americans.
I built my company from the ground up, initially developing hair care products in my garage. I have America to thank. I work hard and pay my taxes. I give back to my community. All the rights and opportunities that come with American citizenship are mine. In my 43 years here, I never felt the sting of discrimination.
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If that is truly his mode, then why in the wide-wide world of sports is he identifying himself as a member of the JackAss party?
Could it be he is saying what others want to hear?
Another question, what does he claim as his religion?
you know, you might be a good guy, I don’t know. But you can’t wash away th fact that you are a muslim. sooner or later it will show up YOU WILL NOT GET MY VOTE
From Texas Liberal Farouk Shami—Jerusalem Is Not In Texas re: MLK Day
Mr. Shami is wearing a scarf. That is fine. You don’t have to be Audrey Hepburn to pull off a scarf. The problem is what the scarf says. On one side it says “Palestine” and on the other side it says “Jerusalem is ours.”
Does Religion Matter? – Culturally and Politically – Farouk’s religion DOES matter, not as to where or how often he practices or not, but what he believes in. According to Islam, one is not allowed to convert to any other religion; it would be a ‘death sentence’ – once a Muslim always a Muslim.
Farouk Shami is a member of the Board of the American Task Force on Palestine, as was Tareq Salahi, the Whitehouse party crasher.
Regarding the Palestinian Right of Return, the ATFP states on its website that “The right of return is an integral part of international humanitarian law, and cannot be renounced by any parties”. – back-door means of destroying Israel in the Two-State Solution, which Arafat and others had rejected many times because they did not get everything they wanted.
The Right of Return would result in the end of Israel (the only democratic society in the Middle East), only by different means than Hamas, PLO, Fatah, Hezbollah or Iran are promoting. Not only the Fatah, but Arab leaders and media have unabashedly admitted that the refugee issue and right of return are being used as a means to destroy Israel. Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser told an interviewer as early as September 1, 1961: “If the refugees return to Israel, Israel will cease to exist.”