Larry Kilgore, one Republican candidate for governor of Texas:

Question 1: Please describe the training and experience that qualify you for this office.
"I read the Bible, praise the Lord, listen to good preaching, study history and ask God for wisdom."

Question 2: How do you propose to resolve the problems with school finance that have many school districts at or near the maximum rate of taxation?
"The support for Government schools (public schools) will collapse just like the support for Marxism collapsed in the East. It’ll probably happen in a Big Whoosh, just like the fall of the Berlin Wall. When this occurs government will no longer need to steal money from the taxpayers to fund the pubic school money pit."

Question 3: What measures do you support for border protection and immigration enforcement?
"The immigration problem fundamentally is a welfare state problem. Some illegal immigrants, certainly not all, receive housing subsidies, food stamps, free medical care, free school and other forms of welfare. Once the freebies are gone freeloaders will not come. Anyone that crosses our border illegally should receive a minimum of five lashes, $3000 fine and deportation."

Question 4: What is the role of the governor in disaster planning, particularly in planning for and executing the efficient evacuation of one or more of our large population centers due to a disaster?
"War is the disaster that we need to be most prepared for. Our citizens need to be well armed. Volunteer militia organizations and sheriffs’ need to work with the Texas National Guard to prepare for conventional, biological, chemical and nuclear attack scenarios. Our war plans will serve as natural disaster evacuation plans also."