--- In [email protected], Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Aug 1, 2005, at 11:25 AM, Peter wrote: > > > I just read the article. He is so screwed. It's really > > too bad that he will not be judged by his political > > ability but by his association with the "international > > pseudo religious cult." > > In a previous election he was actually in the lead--and then two or > three days before the election, these ads with M.'s picture and spooky > sounding sitar music began to air. The question at the end of these > commercials was 'do you really want a person like this in charge of > your government' or something like that. Apparently not.
Just to insert a little levity into a sad situation, when I was in college a good friend of mine pulled off the most wonderful scam. It was back during the Vietnam era, and Wyatt had not been able to get the money together to stay in college, and thus was at the mercy of the draft for three months, until the next quarter started and he'd be back in school. Doing some research, he found out that you couldn't be drafted if you were running for public office. So Wyatt decided to run for the Riverside (CA) School Board. He filled out all the official forms, did all the paperwork, and he was in the race. The trouble was, he was a stoned hippie, with long, long hair and a gnarly mustache-sideburns thing that made him look about as unlikely a candidate for public office as there has ever been in human history. In a fit of brilliance, he decided to never actually appear anywhere for the debates, just to print up posters and flyers and allow them to do the trick. So we took a full- face photo of Wyatt as his most gnarly, in full hippie regalia, sneering into the camera, and put it on the posters and the flyers, under the bannerline: "Do you want THIS in the Riverside School System? Vote for Wyatt M. Portz" He came in second in the election, purely as a result of the backlash vote *against* his image, people not knowing that in voting for Wyatt M. Portz they were actually voting for the hippie. :-) To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
