--- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- 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. :-)
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