Take Five (Stool for Scandal edition)

[DemocratsForProgress]

Jeff Rosenzweig: Take Five (Stool for Scandal edition)

ONE: Living for the City

My erstwhile hometown North Miami was supposed to elect a new mayor on May 14, but no winner has yet emerged, ballots are still being recounted, and the air is thick with innuendo and accusations of skullduggery. So far, nothing unusual for a Florida election, but this particular election has expanded the frontiers of weirdness in other ways.

Candidate Anna Pierre, who likes to refer to herself as a princess and who once had a hit song in her native Haiti, claimed that someone placed voodoo artifacts – “candles, food and dolls with pins stuck in them” – outside the door of her campaign headquarters on Easter Sunday. She also filed a complaint with police over the alleged theft of 50 campaign signs, and claimed that she had received phone calls telling her to abandon her candidacy.

The malevolence arrayed against her could only be countered with some sort of godsend, and she got one in the form of what she called “a spiritual endorsement” from none other than Jesus Christ. In spite of that, she finished dead last in the field of seven candidates. While she didn’t publicly express disappointment that Christ’s backing had failed to secure her a win, Pierre had plenty to say about other topics on her Facebook page:

The results are in. The administration screwed me big time…. They claimed I only have 56 votes – YOU CAN BELIEVE THEM IF YOU WANT

I do, as it happens, but I confess to admiring Pierre’s deep commitment to the truth, which actually prompted her to revise her post midway through...

More at: http://www.democratsforprogress.com/2013/05/24/take-five-stool-for-scandal-edition/

[HooptieWagon]

1. Holy shit, thats funny.

And I have to agree about Miami polititions...they double down on the batshit crazy down there. Hell, the face-eating cannibal zombie would run for office if the cops hadn't killed him. Then again, hes a zombie so he still might.