Here's a guy running for Mayor of Washington, DC who would probably get Outsports' Electoral Votes (if they existed, and if electoral votes applied in any way to this election) based on his strong stand against the Bush girls. (Though I'm a Republican, I appreciate his support for getting on one's knees with DC police officers, or at least the really hot ones):

James Clark (D)
Age: 62
Residence: None given.
Education: "Descendant of slavery. White man's degree makes blacks slaves."
Occupation: No response.
Extra-curricular activities: "My civil activity is to show our children how to smile, and they will show us how not to cry."
Something voters should know about you: "Any non-black entering or living in this city, respect black people as they respect you. I'll reduce all electric, water bills. Barry city administrator."
Why should voters elect you? "D.C. has a unelected president whose daughters and niece are drunks and a mayor whose campaign employed forgery while he campaigned for Maryland Republicans and increases property tax, closes D.C. General, forcing blacks to sell their homes and move out of the city. Clark as mayor will get on my knees with my Metropolitan Police Department and search for black missing children with the same zeal and effort that Ramsey and the mayor did in Rock Creek Park for Chandra Levy. I will furnish Congress with water and electricity for D.C. voting Web site: None given.
Email address: None given.

All of the DC candidates can be found here:

DC Voter Guide

I went to college in DC starting in '97, so I missed most of Marion Barry's tenure. This guy seems to give ol' Marion a run for his money, though. He's colorful, at least, and actually makes a couple validish points...

Barry made headlines over the weekend again by illegally politicking in the federal courthouse. He went into the juryroom with its captive audience of registered DC voters to give a stump speech endorsing a mayoral candidate. Idiot!

"Former mayor Marion Barry strolled into the jury lounge of D.C. Superior Court yesterday morning, picked up the microphone and prepared to deliver a first -- a campaign pep talk in a room where political speech is expressly forbidden.

Barry, stumping for his friend and pastor Willie F. Wilson, fidgeted with the microphone. The thing wouldn't turn on.

So while 20 or so jurors watched, slightly stunned, and court officials scrambled to figure out a response, the ever-outgoing Barry took the campaign to each seat, shaking hands, talking up his mayoral candidate and directing an aide to pass out fliers touting Wilson's political virtues.

"I said we were going to campaign all over the city, and that's what I meant," Barry said later, himself startled that anyone objected to his whistle-stop appearance. "There's a lot of voters down there at the courthouse. I shook hands and chatted with people. You can talk to people in there."

Juror Rob Thayer was in the third-floor lounge, passing the time while waiting to be called for service. He heard a familiar voice and looked up.

"It was Marion Barry, talking about Willie Wilson," he said. "I was a little surprised. I didn't know you could campaign in the courthouse."

Meanwhile, a call from a court employee went upstairs to the offices of the court's executives -- Barry is campaigning down here. What do we do?

It wasn't a question anyone had confronted before. Even in Washington, no one could remember a political campaign taking to the halls of justice, where impartiality is enshrined.

"It is the policy of the D.C. Courts that the courthouse building is for official court business," Leah Guralnick, director of the court's public affairs office, said in a statement. "Political activity is not appropriate and is never allowed. Mr. Barry and his companion were thus asked by a court official to vacate the building and complied."

Barry was not amused at that version of events.

"Nobody put me out of the courthouse," he said. "I've got a lot of friends down there."

Wash Post story here

A friend of mine works for the current Mayor. No one in his office can explain the registration debacle. It's a mess. Williams probably will get reelected. Clark sounds wacky, very wacky--and angry. Isn't the main opponent a minister from Southeast?

DC should have true home rule, though. No taxation without representation!

Well, he got the nomination, so I guess Anthony Williams is the next mayor of Washington.

Pataki used the same chicanery as Williams to get on the Independant Party line in New York, but lost to Tom Golisano, a multimillionaire who loathes him. The gubernatorial election in New York State is going to be pretty interesting this fall.

[quote]Originally posted by fantomas:
Pataki used the same chicanery as Williams to get on the Independant Party line in New York, but lost to Tom Golisano, a multimillionaire who loathes him.

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I love how Golisano is running ads saying he's the "only one who isn't taking money from special interests". Let's see: Funding campaigns with special interest money VS. Billionaires financing their own campaigns. It's a toss-up, I guess.