Primary Election Day in Texas

Today is the day to decide who will represent the GOP and Donk parties in the November mid-term elections. So get out there and vote.

I’m expecting today to be a great day for the two candidates I’m most supporting:

• Gov. Rick Perry — I’m predicting that Kay Bailey Hutchison’s latest lie about resigning from the Senate will be what puts Gov. Perry over the 50% + 1 vote today to avoid a run-off election. KBH and Debra Medina could not have sabotaged their own campaigns any more successfully than they each did in the final weeks leading up to today if they tried to so so deliberately.
• Paul Workman — running for State Representative in HD-47, which is my new district since moving a few months ago. Workman has lived in our district for more than 25 years, and is a successful business man in the construction industry. Which means he knows how to run a business and create jobs. Very important skills for a legislature. His opponents, David Sewell and Holly Turner, are both young lawyers who have no real job skills outside of academia and lawyering. We have enough lawyers in  politics already. Let’s get some real, hardworking Americans in office to represent the rest of us. Another factor working against Turner is that she’s an opportunistic carpetbagger who’s married to a lobbyist.

On the Democrat side of the aisle, I’m watching to see how the circus of clowns, comedians, rappers, and sandwich makers plays out.

Here’s who I’m rooting for (though I think they have about as much chance of winning their party’s nod as Harry Reid does of being re-elected in Nevada):

• Kinky Friedman: Todd Staples (R), the current Commissioner of Agriculture will wife the floor with either Friedman or Hank Gilbert. It’s just so much more amusing to have Kinky in the campaign (“No cow left behind…”)  than without him.
• Farouk Shami — not since a first-term junior senator from Illinois ran for President has a candidate been more ill-prepared or qualified for the office he was running for. I know Bill White will probably win this with 65-70% of the vote…but you just gotta love a man who hires a local rapper (creating another job right there) to write the most awesome OFFICIAL campaign theme song of all time:

Farouk Farouk, Farouk is on fi-ah:

(h/t to Texas Tribune for the video)

The best part of today? At the end of it we’ll finally be done having to listen to Debra Medina wondering what our government’s role and involvement was in flying airplanes into buildings (NY, D.C. and Austin) and killing innocent American citizens.