
A View From the Porch
By MARIO NAVES
|This article is from the archive of The New York Sun before the launch of its new website in 2022. The Sun has neither altered nor updated such articles but will seek to correct any errors, mis-categorizations or other problems introduced during transfer.

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AUSTIN,Texas — Texas voters will get “Kinky,” but they won’t get “Grandma.” The state elections chief yesterday rejected gubernatorial candidate Carole Keeton Strayhorn’s request to be called “Grandma” on the November ballot, but he decided her fellow independent candidate Kinky Friedman could use his nickname as long as it was accompanied by his given name — Richard.

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|AUSTIN,Texas — Texas voters will get “Kinky,” but they won’t get “Grandma.” The state elections chief yesterday rejected gubernatorial candidate Carole Keeton Strayhorn’s request to be called “Grandma” on the November ballot, but he decided her fellow independent candidate Kinky Friedman could use his nickname as long as it was accompanied by his given name — Richard.
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