You can lead a politician to water, but you can't make him think
Subtitle: ten commandments for Texas politics
By: Kinky Friedman
Edition: 1st Simon & Schuster hardcover ed.
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 127
ISBN-13: 9781416547600
Subjects: Politics and government; Practical Politics; Election; Governors; Political campaigns; Elections
Description: The author describes how he managed his haphazard grassroots gubernatorial campaign in Texas, from his meager beginnings with his campaign team through his November 2006 emergence as one of four top contenders.
Table of contents: title: An Introduction: Old Testaments and New Revelations -- 5 -- 1; title: remember the Alamo and Keep it Holy -- 19 -- 2; title: Thou Shalt Not Covet Thy Neighbor's Mudflaps, or, The Long-term Effects of Apathy upon the Yellow Rose of Texas -- 31 -- 3; title: Never Say Fuck in Front of a C-H-I-L-D -- 39 -- 4; title: Thou Shalt Fight Wussification -- 47 -- 5; title: Thou Shalt Throw the Money Changers Out of the Temple, or, I Can Answer That for You, but I Can't Understand It for You -- 57 -- 6; title: Thou Shalt Not Bullshit, or, Sacred Teachings of the Butt-Sniffing Clan -- 67 -- 7; title: Thou Shalt Not Kill -- 75 -- 8; title: Thou Shalt Not Eat a Chicken-Fried Steak Bigger Than Your Head, or, Common Sense -- 89 -- 9; title: Fuck 'em if They Can't Take a Joke -- 99 -- 10; title: Ask Not if You're Proud of Texas: Ask if You've Made Texas Proud of You-- 113.