Friedman is known for his wild past, dating a former Miss Texas and peppering his speech with phrases worthy of a cowboy who just sat down on a prickly pear cactus.
"There are no skeletons in my closet. They are all bleaching on a beach somewhere," he said.
You want to know Friedman's stand on gun control?
"I do not carry a gun myself, so if someone is going to shoot me, they better remember to bring their own weapon."
On abortion?
"I am not pro-life, I am not pro-choice, I am pro football."
On the serious side, Friedman would like to establish a Texas Peace Corps where people could volunteer and help the state. He was a member of the Peace Corps in Borneo, where he taught agriculture to people who had been successfully farming for 2,000 years.
He would like to see nondenominational prayer in school and make Texas a state that does not allow animal shelters or pounds to kill abandoned or stray pets.
He has no plans to get a make-over for the campaign. He will smoke his cigars and wear his cowboy hat low over his curly hair.
"I got a straight perm a few months ago," he said. "It was so bad that it made me look like Hitler as a used car salesman."
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