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• 4 • Action Magazine, February 2012 God bless John Wayne, Johnny Cash, and Peggy Fikac. with candidates in the Republican primaries, one has to wonder what prompted John Wayne was Mr. Testosterone, hero of the silver screen, and a cham - Perry to even try. pion of men whose crashing fists sent many a pusillanimous penis head to the Wasn’t he smart enough to avoid debates on the state level with Bill White, deck boards. Kinky Friedman, and other candidates for the Texas governorship? Johnny Cash was the man in black whose thundering voice became the A Perry debate with Kinky Friedman would be enough to give Rick’s wife true sound of the South. He was the hero of every man behind bars, and his own Anita an acute case of the shivering hooteygobbles. life was a powerful story of recovery and redemption. Before Kinky got done with Rick, Anita would really have something to Peggy Fikac is the best thing to happen to the Express and blubber about. And the same would have been the case with a Perry/White de - News since Charlie Kilpatrick left and Rupert Murdoch sold out to Hearst. bate. She is the Express and News Austin political correspondent whose flaming After Perry came crawling home from the Republican primaries with his journalistic blow torch has given Rick Perry no rest or respite since the imbecile tail between his legs, columnist Peggy Fikac chastised the team of loyalists who from Paint Creek jumped into the Republican presidential race. She is honest and helped him achieve an unbroken string of wins in state races over the years. truthful and relentless, and I like relentless people. Rats jump ship Fikac stands out She referred directly to Dave Carney, Perry’s longtime top consultant. With Cary Clack and Scott Stroud gone from the newspaper’s metro sec - Fikac wrote in her Express-News column: tion, the San Antonio paper has had little to offer in the way of local columnists. “Nationally known veterans were brought aboard to try to fix the campaign- Among O. Ricardo Pimentel and other equally boring metro section hacks, Peggy -which became unfixable when Perry ‘oopsed’ his way into debate history by failing Fikac sparkles like a diamond in a goat’s ass. to recall one of the three federal departments he wanted to close.” Fikac knew from the outset what I have known since that cold winter morn - According to Fikac, who obviously has a bunch of anonymous sources on ing that Kinky Friedman assembled a few friends and fans in front of the Alamo to the political front, Dave Carney was fired around Thanksgiving by Joe Allbaugh, call for Governor Rick Perry’s “unconditional surrender.” brought into the Perry camp too late and with too little to get the ship righted. Perry has always been a dim bulb with more ego than brains, and how a Fikac doubts that Carney would work with Perry again . gay-bashing, coyote-shooting bullshitter of his ilk ever got elected governor of Repudiated and ridiculed from coast to coast, Perry has spent nearly $3 Texas in the first place is still hard to fathom. He is a strutting, swaggering Claghorn million of the state’s money, disgraced Texas with his moronic debate perform - who refused to debate his gubernatorial opponents, and who repeatedly spurned ances, and played his Christian religion card in a manner which has led many to editorial board questionnaires from leading Texas newspapers. regard him as a phony and a hypocrite. Kinky Friedman has always been smarter than Rick Perry. I know this to Rick Perry had no more business using his self-professed Christianity as be a fact, and Fikac probably knows as a political weapon than preacher John Hagee has to assault motorists on Loop much herself. And who would blame Bill White if he never considered a race for 1604 with that gigantic billboard advertising himself and his Cornerstone Church. anything in Texas again? Democrat White is a good man and former In blazing, garish technicolor, the gaudy barn-sized billboard is as brightly mayor who really had more than hot air to offer his constituents. lighted as anything on the Vegas Strip, and the hog-jowled countenance of the ro - Friedman didn’t really entertain any notion that he would be a serious can - tund “Pastor Hagee” makes it even more repugnant. didate for governor when he announced as an independent candidate at that Alamo Preacher not needed appearance. Texas motorists don’t need “Mr. Pork Chops” Hagee staring through their Joke turned serious windshields. It was a tongue-in-cheek moment for the Kinkster, an opportunity to sell And Texas voters don’t need Rick Perry with his hokey, self-serving evan - more books, crack more jokes on the Texas stage, and further promote his dog gelical rhetoric, and his hollow claim that Texas has more job opportunities than and cat rescue ranch near Utopia and his column in Texas Monthly. any other state. But after his initial announcement, things began to change with Friedman. If the economy is improving, Rick Perry had nothing to do with it. And if we There were people out there who wanted to take him seriously, and Kinky began have an abundance of jobs, it is probably because of the new oil boom in South to realize that Rick Perry was really a bad joke on Texas. Texas, another event not connected in any way to the governor’s office. Kinky Friedman is truly a fine person, but his professional comedian per - Peggy Fikac writes that Perry won’t step down from his gubernatorial po - sona was too much for him to overcome. Voters never took him seriously, and he sition now that he is back in Texas, and that he hasn’t ruled out the possibility of would fall to Perry as did Bill White and numerous others. again running for governor. With his “oops moment” and other moronic gaffes in disastrous debates Such a prospect is enough to gag a maggot. Or a coyote.

Action Magazine, February 2012 • 5 • Tejano’s King Emilio picking up the pieces after awful bus crash By Sam Kindrick special person and a great enter - Doblado pero nunca roto. tainer.” Or bent but not broken. Selina Quintanilla Perez was shot In either Spanish or English, the to death by fan club president description fits onetime Tejano and Yolanda Saldivar. superstar Emilio “Pure jealousy,” Navaira said. “I Navaira. believe that was the cause.” He has survived the harrowing tour Emilio has lost a lot. He pleaded bus crash in 2008 which left him guilty to a second DUI charge and hanging between life and death in a served a short jail term after being re - Houston hospital. Emilio was driving leased from the Houston hospital the bus. where he was treated following the He suffered brain damage from a tour bus wreck. And there were a giant blood clot on his head, and sur - couple of drunk driving charges prior geons repaired a pseudoaneurysm to the wreck, but Navaira tries to in his right lung. avoid discussing the painful details. Emilio, they said, would probably “I am just grateful to God that I was die or remain mentally incapacitated the only one seriously injured in the for the rest of his life. accident, and that nobody died,”

In photo above, Emilio Navaira reflects on the brain damage He did not die. And although he Emilio said. “I can’t say what actually still occasionally forgets a few words caused the wreck. I don’t remember which caused him to temporarily forget the lyrics to many of his to his own hit songs, 50-year-old anything about it. I just know that I songs. He credits wife Maru, pictured with him below, for much Emilio Navaira is back working with woke up in that hospital with a brain of the progress he has made in relauching his tarnished career. his band Grupo Rio. that wouldn’t work.” “My first since the accident Emilio now makes frequent refer - will be released on Valentines Day,” ences to what he calls his “new Navaira said. “It is being produced in brain.” Monterrey, Mexico.” He says his speech has repaired I hooked up with the onetime “King itself, and that his memory is improv - of Tejano” last month at his home ing steadily. near Von Ormy. Emilio’s pretty wife Maru, 30, was Emilio submitted to this exclusive there as Navaira showed us around interview, and graciously invited me the two-story home he built near Von into his home. Ormy almost 30 years ago. The prop - I was accompanied by Joe Carde - erty includes 10 acres which backs nas, my longtime amigo from Accent up to the bank of the Medina River. Imaging whose son Dan now does The home’s den and rehearsal graphics and composition for Action room is festooned with photographs Magazine. of Emilio with the greats of Tejano “My home will always be open to and country music, and mementoes you,” Navaira said. “I welcome this from his tattered career range from a opportunity to let people know that I pool table given him by former Presi - am back. I am grateful to God for my dent George W. Bush to a guitar he life and my friends and my fans, and received from friend and country I feel honored. Never before have I music great . been interviewed by a writer from any An engraved copper plate on the publication. This is my first.” pool table says: Designed especially Navaira is a Grammy winner who for Emilio Navaira from Governor recorded with the late Tejano beauty George Bush. queen singer Selina, and who once “When Bush started his campaign edged Selina out for album of the for the presidency, he picked me up year at the Awards. in Monterrey in his private plane, and “Part of me died when Selina was we did campaign shows in El Paso, murdered,” Navaira said. “We Eagle Pass, Houston and up into Dal - recorded together and performed to - las and beyond,” Emilio said. “Times gether. I was in California at the time, were good in those days.” and I flew straight to Corpus Christi Navaira is well aware of the nega - when told of her death. She was a tive reaction which followed a Hous -

• 6 • Action Magazine, February 2012 ton police release following the bus before joining David Lee Garza’s Los rehab unit, and you know most of the and I was wondering what in hell I wreck which said he had a blood alco - Musicales, ” Emilio said. “I stuck with rest of the story. would do if I just froze up. But there hol content of 0.19, more than twice Garza as a lead singer until I formed Emilio has two sons in their 20s was no problem. The crowd was made the legal limit in Texas. my band, Emilio y Grupo Rio .” from his first marriage, Diego and up of fans who knew every single word “I really can’t say much about re - That same year, 1989, Emilio Emilio. Diego is a drummer, Emilio to my songs, and they were all singing ports like that,” Navaira said. “People signed with , plays guitar. Both are in his band. right along with me. They seemed to will say what they will say. What I do recording more than 15 studio , And Emilio has three smaller chil - know. They carried me right on know is that I lost all of my advertising including several with his own group. dren from his current marriage who through the show, and that’s when I re - sponsors after the accident. Between 1989 and 1996, Emilio live at home in Von Ormy with him and alized that God was looking out for “I lost Ford trucks, Wrangler jeans, had released seven Spanish language wife Maru. me.” Stetson Hats, and Tony Llama boots,” albums with cumulative sales of some “Maru is from Torreon, Mexico,” Emilio said. “This hurt, but the loss $2-million. And it was during the mid Emilio said. “She manages my band, also motivates me to really get up and 1990s that he started switching gears handles all of the business. She is the get at it...really show them that I will from Tejano to English language coun - only booking agent I use. Some peo - not lie down and give up.” try. ple were saying that she had filed for The loss of Stetson as a sponsor Hector Saldana, Express and News divorce, but we are still together. I was the one Emilio regrets the most. Latin Notes columnist who is also have been with her since she was 16, “Stetson always kept me in custom leader of the Krayolas group, said of and that’s 14 years. hats,” he said. “I really love those hats, Emilio: It seems like Maru and I have been to - and now I have to go out and buy “He has one of those big Caruso- gether all of my life. them.” type voices, very powerful and distinc - “When I came home from the hos - Asked about a new pair of square- tive. When Selina was at the top of her pital, I couldn’t remember the words to toed boots he was sporting, Navaira career, Emilio was the male counter - my songs. I couldn’t remember any - grinned. part in the Tejano music field. Both of one’s name. I remember sitting in “Yeah, they are Tony Llamas. But them were very big.” the living room and crying while what the heck. I have worn Tony This success eventually led to Maru played some of my Lamas all my life, and I guess I will still mainstream commercial exposure with records. I remember hollering get them and pay for them myself.” companies like Coca Cola, Wrangler at her, ‘Who the hell is that?’ There have been other losses as jeans, and Miller Lite Beer. And I will never forget her well, some personal and not easy to With Capital Records, Navaira re - patience and the way she define or even explain. Emilio’s live leased his first country single, It’s Not sort of led me back wire vocalist brother Raul (Raulito) is The End of The World. This record hit through my own no longer with the band, a condition the top 30 on the country charts, and songs. My new which Emilio lays off to a contractual the ensuing album made it to 13 on brain began to disagreement which arose when his the country charts. work during brother signed some sort of agree - In 1997, Emilio released a second those days. ment while he was in the hospital. country album, It’s On The House, but Lyrics began “Raulito and I got together on Christ - this one didn’t do so well, and then to come back. mas Eve,” Emilio said. “We both cried Navaira started moving back into My fears a little bit, and we both made every - Spanish language music. started to slip thing right. In two years, when Raulito “I still do my country stuff,” Emilio away. I began is free from his current contract, we will said. “Right along with the Tejano. And to believe I had again be working together. He is my the audiences in Mexico love it.” a chance. only brother, and I love him very The true good life, and the world of Maybe I would much.” plenty Emilio had known during his make it back.” Asked pointedly if he still drank al - dazzling heyday of the 1990s, started Times have been cohol, Emilio said, “Only a few beers a downhill plunge on the fateful night financially tough for now and then. Not enough to do of March 23, 2008. Emilio and his family. The signs are harm.” Asked if he thought alcohol was Emilio, Raulito, and other members there at the home near Von Ormy. A any problem for him, Emilio said, “I of the group had played a nightclub telltale crack in one of the windows, a don’t believe so.” known as Hallabaloos in Houston, and swimming pool that is unfilled and He lists his greatest musical influ - Emilio was driving the tour bus when screaming for a maintenance man. ences as David Lee Garza of Poteet it slammed into a set of freeway bar - “The wreck set me back three and George Strait. Also Ram Herrera. rels at 4 o’clock in the morning. years on my mortgage payment,” “I have always done Tejano in Emilio was taken by Life Flight to Emilio said. “But they didn’t foreclose, Spanish and country in English,” Memorial Hermann Hospital where the and I thank God for that. I have caught Navaira said. “My new album coming blood clot was removed from his head. up two years, and I hope to pay it off out on Valentines Day will be all Span - His initial treatment included his being when I get the new record out.” ish except for one country tune. kept in a medically-induced coma and Emilio said his first live performance “I am working a lot now in Mexico, induced hyperthermia to minimize after leaving the hospital was at the some in California. This is where they brain swelling. Far West Club in Monterrey, a hippo - are still paying for Tejano. It’s not doing A March 27th release from the hos - drome which contained several thou - well here in San Antonio and South pital said Emilio had opened his eyes sand screaming fans. 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• 10 • Action Magazine, February 2012 her, and I always come a South Side daughter of well- tucky where his Jay Urbano Scorpions profes - will. She truly tradition at most of known percussion - wife Maj. Peggy formed the original sional soccer knows how to treat the clubs which ist Urban Urbano, Urbano is sta - Smith Brothers team. other people. She have employed is in her second tioned with the Band with the late According to treats everyone her, but her 50th at year as the only Army. Joe Estes. Hartman, pro - the same, the way Brooks Pub was drum major yet to “We have five “I am now in the ceeds from up - she would like to the biggest. lead the University girls,” Urban said, process of getting coming soccer be treated.” “We were of Texas at San “and you know that the Smith Brothers games will help Born Cindy packed all day and Antonio Marching we will be back back and rinning,” support the special Strasters and night,” said Linda Band. here in San Anto - Jay Urbano said. needs community raised in Blythville, Reese. “It was a “She was nio soon. Another S.A. Soccer in San Antonio. Arkansas, Ms. wonderful celebra - elected drum year or so. AndI Philanthropist Hartman’s cause Bonds followed her tion major by members will be back on the and imagineer is worthwhile, and sister to San Anto - Alana Urbano of the band,” drums with my Gordon Hartman his heart is no nio at an early age. The Urbano fam - Urban said. “We many musician has signed a head doubt in the right “My sister was in ily of San Antonio are all very proud friends. It’s in our coach and a scat - place, but San An - the Air Force and has notched yet of her.” blood.” tering of players for tonio is not ready stationed at Lack - another mark on Urban Urbano Urban’s brother his San Antnio for pro soccer.. land,” Cindy said. the local entertain - was in town visiting Birthday bashes ment ladder. last month from for Cindy have be - Alana Urbano, Fort Knox, Ken -

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This is football country, moter who has made the fi - to make a football, basket - team won’t support it, while and the soccer rage which nancially fatal mistake of ball, or track team. On even a gambling casino would do has enveloped South booking even a top draw in a minor league pro level, it the trick. America and much of Eu - the music industry on a is unrealistic to expect the If the Kickapoo Indians rope will probably never night when Brackenridge ticket-buying public to re - qualify, why not the special reach San Antonio and and Lee might be plaing for spond. needs kids? South Texas. a city championship. Gordon Hartman’s Mor - Something to think about. Football is Texas, and the And while high school gan’s Wonderland for spe - sport is still as great as the football will outdraw any cial needs Indoor legends it has spawned. other single sporting event people is a Smoking Allowed! Bronco Narguski, Red in San Antonio, the Alamo worthwhile Grange, The Four Horse - City still doesn’t have a NFL cause which, ob - men of Notre Dame, and franchise. viously, takes Slingin’ Sammy Baugh will Soccer is played in both money and a lot never be replaced by elementary and junior of effort to run Roberto, schools because it is good and maintain. Claudio and Pele Ask exercise for kids who lack But a bush any music concert pro - the physical talents needed league soccer

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