So, this guy Jonathan Rees just ran for the Ward 3 council seat. I've been reading about his hijinks for months but never really tuned in. Then I found out that he got a grand total of 28 votes, out of 25,000 people, in the primary. I believe Sherriff Gone Getcha got more votes than that in his re-election campaign, although I remember hearing that he was facing a strong challenge from Dr. Don't Know. For further comparison, Dante's girlfriend in Clerks sucked 37 dicks, which is 9 more dicks than Rees had votes.
Did I mention that his campaign strategy was to convince the entire city how completely fucking batshit insane he is??? He basically got $500 from the city to run a campaign that primarily involved a) spamming Craig's List users and b) bombarding every media/politics blog in town with comment-section rants about "snobs" and "rich white trash" (he's white), always posing as someone else, as if to create a "community" of Rees followers. I'm gonna go ahead and guess that he used more than 28 aliases during the campaign.
In retrospect, the fact that his blog is called Crack City Blog should have tipped me off. There's some excellent stuff in there. I like how he claims that the constituents of Ward 3, whom he was trying to win over, in theory, are the District's primary source of genital herpes. He's like a cross between the average Howard Stern guest and my dad. Also fun is evidence of his spammery. It's a lot funnier when you remember that he actually ran for the seat. It wasn't a goof. Maybe I was wrong about politics not being fun...
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