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13.9.13 02:27 
53 DAYS TO ELECTION DAY - MAYORAL CANDIDATE #11: JOHN CHARLES WILSON (LAURAIST COMMUNIST)

(Let's do a little catch up!)

Wilson, 47, collected bus schedules as a child and got more peculiar from there. On his campaign website (which currently has three pages - unlike his personal site, which has at least ten) he starts right off describing his time "locked up" in the mental health system. From his "What I Believe" page, he starts right off with "First and foremost, I believe that Laura Ingalls Wilder is God. This is due to visions I started seeing at the age of 15." and to be honest...this is kinda where he lost me. (I DID try to watch the video on his "party's" Facebook page but tonight I learned that even I have a breaking point when it comes to "opposition research.")

His principle is a combination of his Wilder-centered "religion" (although he also says he's an atheist) with good ol' fashioned communism ("the best form of government"). He had a Libertarian phase in high school, which may or may not have been a stepping stone to his committal.

The tagline on his campaign site is "Your 2nd Choice for Mayor of Minneapolis!" which is an interesting tactic in the Ranked Choice Voting era. (...even if I think he should be pretty close to your 35th choice.)

I have more Likes than him, and I am very thankful for that.

He lives in Whittier but has a lot of stuff in Seattle in storage - in fact, as I type this he's beginning a train trip to go get it. He'll be back next Sunday. I don't know how much of his stuff he can take on Amtrak.

Amongst other adjectives, I think my favourite one Wilson has used to describe his campaign is "non-hygienic" - I don't totally know what that means, but I believe he's probably the only one of the 35 to use the term. He also describes himself as a "psychiatric survivor" and has authored a autobiography entitled "The Conscience of a Communist."

He intends to run for office as long as he is alive. That sounds like he may have a pessimistic idea of how far he'll get this time around. This is his second run for mayor; in 2009, he received the coveted 11th place out of the eleven candidates, amassing 137 votes. (To his credit, he uses this result to rebuke accusations that his is a "vanity" candidacy, asserting that finshing 11th out of 11, behind the admitted non-serious candidate..." isn't exactly the greatest stroking of an ego. His Party or Principle THEN was "Edgertonite National," which I also believe ran a grand total of one candidate...although there may also have been a presidential run in there as well. Or maybe he was just president of that party. "Edgerton" is another manifestation of his transit fascination - and now we've come full circle.

I think I can honestly tell you I would absolutely be a better mayor than this guy. Am I right or wrong? It's YOUR vote!

NEXT: NOW we'll get to the only candidate to knock on my door while I was home (so far)
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