This year's major independent candidates are Kinky Friedman, motto "why the hell not?", and Carole Keeton Strayhorn, motto "one tough grandma". She's also known for being [White House Press Secretary] Scott McClellan's mom and revoking the tax-free status of the Unitarian Universalist Church in Texas because it "does not have one system of belief" in 2004 -- a ruling that was later overturned.
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