Paul Herold is a candidate for a city council seat in Blaine, Minnesota, but he wishes he wasn’t. Herold signed up to run in the primary election, but before the election took place he got a new job that he…
Representative Mark Foley resigned from Congress today after questions were raised about e-mails he sent to a 16-year-old former congressional page. Excerpts of the e-mails were published by ABC News and then were posted on a Washington ethics group’s website,…
Further confirming what a great thing the initiative process is, an Arizona proposal that would enter everyone who actually votes into the drawing for a $1 million prize has qualified for the November ballot. Tired of seeing extremely low turnouts…
In May, the Democratic Party chose not to nominate anyone to run against GOP Rep. Eric Cantor for his seat in the 7th Congressional District in Virginia, rather than nominate Brad Blanton, who I guess was the only person who…
A citizen panel in Oregon has come to the conclusion that state legislators and legislative staff should not be drunk while performing their official duties. The Public Commission on the Oregon Legislature adopted the policy on Monday after it was…
Recently quoted in The New Yorker: [Detroit] Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick has named former mayoral challenger and City Councilwoman Sharon Mc Phail, who once accused him of rigging her massage chair to electrocute her, to the newly created position of general…
Fleeing seems to have left the wrong impression.
The election for mayor of New Orleans is coming up soon. You might think someone would have to be crazy to want to be the mayor there right now. You might be right — luckily, there are plenty of candidates…
Reuters reports that with over 2,500 people running for 120 seats in Peru’s Congress, candidates have felt it necessary to engage in a variety of stupid stunts to get any attention at all. Some have chained themselves to railings outside…
Harper’s Magazine reported this month on a proclamation in honor of Dadaism issued late last year by Dennis Highberger, the mayor of Lawrence, Kansas. This year is (according to some) the 90th anniversary of the creation of Dadaism, an artistic…