suggested she would lose badly), well-known Texas country music singer Kinky Friedman , and write-in candidate James "Patriot" Dillon. Perry won the race in a plurality , polling 1,714,618 votes (39 percent) to Bell's 1,309,774 (29.8 percent), Strayhorn's 789,432 (18 percent), Friedman's 553,327 (12.6 percent), and Werner's 26,726 (0.6 percent). Dillon