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Kinky Friedman, 1944-2024

By Peter Tonguette
Published July 4, 2024 9:00pm ET
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Kinky Friedman, 1944-2024
FILE - In this Nov. 7, 2009 file photo, Independent gubernatorial candidate Kinky Friedman talks with the media at his campaign headquarters in Austin, Texas. Friedman, the singer, songwriter, satirist and novelist who also dabbled in Texas politics with a campaign for governor, died Thursday at his family’s Texas ranch near San Antonio. He was 79. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, file)

If someone were to put the populism of Donald Trump, the unreconstructed libertarianism of Ron Paul, the midlevel star power of Jesse Ventura, and the Texas twang of Ross Perot into a blender, Kinky Friedman might just have emerged.

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