Billzasilver posted:

why even go in to politics if not for free food and liquor.

Billzasilver posted:

why even go in to politics if not for free food and liquor.

slouch posted:

love of the tort

Squizzle posted:

if you lose the primary he pays if you win you pay

cant be bribery or squid go pro if your not in power

The Saucer Hovers posted:

Torte reform.

slouch posted:

love of the snort

bob dobbs is dead posted:

Supersonic Shine posted:

Tomorrow, some people are going to vote for a 23-year-old SA forums poster who uses memes in his advertising and lives with his dad. There might even be enough votes to win him the primary. And to think, none of it might have happened if a Christofascist pedophile hadn't come within a hair's width of winning a Senate race.

lollontee posted:

We're looking at the beginning of something beautiful awful. The birth of The Internet Party. It'll solve the taxmans money too

Grand Prize Winner posted:

the shitpost cannot hear the shitposter

Drunkboxer posted:

did you win??

Agean90 posted:

we will know tomorrow

quote:

Flower Mound’s Richard Wolf Wants A Seat In The Texas Legislature And, As Ridiculous As His Online Presence Is, He Swears He’s Serious About Winning.
Richard Wolf is 23 years old. He’s also unemployed. And when asked as part of a Dallas Morning News candidate questionnaire why he wants to be elected as the next state representative for Texas House District 63, his written response started as follows: “*massive bong rip*…”

Still, the lifelong Flower Mound resident wants everyone out there to know that, despite the impression they might be getting from his unorthodox campaign, he’s dead serious about wanting to win the Democratic nomination for his district when voters take the polls tomorrow.

“I understand why people think I would just be trolling,” Wolf says. “I don’t take myself too seriously. But it’s a serious campaign. I want to make Texas the best state that it can be.”

On the phone, Wolf is cool, calm and collected. He doesn’t stumble on his words. He sounds quite coherent. He seems fully committed to his campaign, too. Still, it maybe doesn’t help matters that Wolf’s candidate Facebook page can be best described as what happens when you cross a political campaign with an obscure memes page

This much is clear, though: Wolf’s tactics have gotten him a ton of attention — and not just from local news organizations who are trying to make heads or tails of them, but from national outlets such as New York Magazine and live stream network Cheddar, both of which seem genuinely curious about how effective (and potentially cost-saving) Wolf’s meme-campaigning efforts are — a fair question given the roles memes played in the 2016 presidential campaigns.

Perhaps not getting the same amount of attention as his memes and online attitude, though, are Wolf’s political positions, which include protecting undocumented immigrants, improving education funding, fixing Medicaid, legalizing marijuana and limiting state incentives for businesses.

Though Wolf sounds well-versed in these issues, the DMN offered a scathing rebuke of Wolf’s campaign last week when the editorial department said the residents of that district would likely prefer “somebody with a bit of life experience who can complete a questionnaire without resorting to profanities or boasts that he ‘will be the best legislator of all time.'” Of course, as much as a burn as that was intended to be on Wolf, it likely bodes worse for Laura Haines, Wolf’s Democratic primary contender, who is actually running an orthodox campaign with a reserved online presence — and not one that, say, references how its candidate’s name is similar to that of a famous television producer.

Still, the big question lingers: Is Wolf serious about all this? Denton County Democratic Party chairperson Phyllis Wolper says she feels that he is, even if she doesn’t necessarily support his approach.

“He feels like this time is a critical time to have a voice and to show leadership that he can hopefully be a great inspiration to our young adults in Texas,” Wolper says, in a tone of voice that indicates just how carefully she is choosing her words. “We hope they realize that their vote does count and that there’s someone like them standing up for them who understands their concerns.”

Sheng-Ji Yang posted:

also: https://cheddar.com/videos/how-to-run-a-social-media-election-campaign

congrats on all the media coverage

slouch posted:

lmao i loving hate this one. they made me skype in at the last second so i look like a dumbass

slouch posted:

lmao i loving hate this one. they made me skype in at the last second so i look like a dumbass

slouch posted:

i also would like to know now. but we must wait until tomorrow

edit: also im going to be printing up some 40x32 inch copies of taintrunners pic tomorrow to attach to some big pieces of plastic for signs. i will make democrat poll greeters hold them around the district. unfortunately when i went to the nearest large sized color printer place they werent able to do .png images (???) and were closing too soon for me to come back. so ill be out there at the crack of dawn tomorrow to print out my dumb rear end face larger than life size.

normally i hate signs and would never do this but idk what else i would be able to do tomorrow

murked by dragon posted:

i wish i was as contagious as you richard wolf