What makes Kinky run?

Kinky with The First Lady at a benefit for his animal rescue ranch
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The AP's Mike Graczyk visited Kinky Friedman at his rural home in Medina.

Kinky, who's been writing mystery books that feature himself as the main character, kills himself off in his final novel. He's tired of writing 'em.

Now he's ready to be governor of Texas.

At the foundation of his beliefs is a battle against what he calls “wussification” – political correctness that’s weakened spiritual and cultural fibers and has strangled free thought and independence.
“People are afraid now to say ‘Merry Christmas,’ afraid to light up a cigar, afraid to say it’s OK to pray in schools,” he says. “We didn’t get to be the Lone Star State by being politically correct.”
Among dozens of framed pictures crammed on the walls of his tiny office in an idyllic Hill Country ranch house are those of Gandhi and Freud, a handwritten note from Bill Clinton and a snapshot of Friedman with George W. Bush. At the invitation of both presidents, he’s spent nights at the White House.
He shares his 500 acres with Echo Hill Ranch, a summer camp for kids that’s been in his family for about 50 years, and with the Utopia Animal Rescue Ranch, a home for dozens of unwanted dogs and several horses, pigs and chickens. In the past three years, about 750 animals have found new homes through the efforts of the small staff.

[The Desert Mountain Times]