Friedman, Perry, Montemayor, Ellis, Shapiro, Deuell, Hill, and MindusIndependent gubernatorial candidate Kinky Friedman, telling the Fort Worth Star-Telegram he's got no skeletons in his closet, and then proving it by recounting war stories from his band days: "When Eric Clapton offers you a toot of cocaine, what are you going to do? Say, 'No thanks, I had an apple on the train?'" Friedman again, in that same article: "More than $100 million was spent in the last gubernatorial race by the two candidates for a job that pays $115,000. That smells fishy to most of us. Something is wrong with that picture. I've always said a fool and his money are soon elected. But not this time around. The guy with the most money shouldn't always win." Gov. Rick Perry, telling reporters he hopes Texans in Washington, D.C., will overcome their ambitions for higher offices such as his: "I hope our delegation becomes a very, very powerful and tenured delegation." Texas Insurance Commissioner José Montemayor, in a report to the Legislature: "Credit scoring is not unfairly discriminatory as defined in current law because credit scoring is not based on race, nor is it a precise indicator of one's race." Sen. Rodney Ellis, D-Houston, reacting to news that state regulators won't block insurance companies from basing premiums on customers' credit ratings, in The Dallas Morning News: "It doesn't matter if credit scoring is actuarially justifiable, it is morally unacceptable." Sen. Florence Shapiro, R-Plano, in an Austin American-Statesman story about teachers who converged on the Capitol to argue for more money for education and pay raises: "Who's paying for all the substitutes?" Sen. Bob Deuell, R-Greenville, before the Senate nominations committee approved the appointment of Weatherford car dealer Roger Williams as Texas Secretary of State: "We need to go talk to our sales manager before we vote." Rep. Fred Hill, R-Richardson, talking to The Dallas Morning News about his committee's interim report, which the paper said was stuck in House Speaker Tom Craddick's office: "I can't tell you what they're doing with it, other than they're probably not real happy with its recommendations with regards to caps." Dan Mindus, a spokesman for a food industry group fighting junk-food taxes, in the Houston Chronicle: "If you're going to tax people because of behavior that might incur a future health care cost, are we going to tax people who don't floss? Are we going to tax people for their sexual behavior?"