Sure Beats the Other Gov. Wilson

Attention Californians: If none of the 135 ballot-qualified candidates for governor float your boat, you can always write in the novelist Robert Anton Wilson, who's just claimed the nomination of the one-man Guns and Dope Party. Upon election, he promises, his first order of business will be to "Fire 33% of the legislature (names selected at random) and replace them with full-grown adult ostriches, whose mysterious and awesome dignity will elevate the suidean barbarity long established there."

I'm not sure what "suidean" means. But I still like the idea.

Comments

[Anonymous]

another weirdo running for office, thanks for the news!

[Anonymous]

Did he devise the "One Man - One Gun Rule," too? Great! (About time.)

[librarian]

I looked up leg?is?la?tor in our arcane dictionary.

It says here, "Any of several mammals of the family Suidae, having short legs, cloven hoofs, bristly hair, and a cartilaginous snout used for digging, slurping, and slopping at the trough of looted taxes, especially those of domestic victims."

[Umbriel]

Any cite for this?

[Jesse Walker]

It isn't on the Web yet, unfortunately. Wilson made his announcement via e-mail, and I confirmed via one of his friends that it was him rather than an imposter.

[Chris Puzak]

What, no fucking in the streets? I'm disappointed.

[Russ D]

I think suidean means "pigs" or boars.

[Madog]

I'm disappointed in his backing down from his previous pro-fucking in the streets position.

[jens]

I think Russ is correct, if extremely obscure.

http://smac.ucsd.edu/cgi-bin/http_webster?method=exact&isindex=Suidae&db=wn

[J Canuck]

And 10% of the legislators should be replaced by Dolphins. All the tree-huggers claim they're more intelligent than us, anyway.

[Mo]

In order to be eligible to receive write-in votes and have them actually count, a candidate must file a written statement declaring him or herself to be an official write-in candidate for a particular election. Write-in votes cast for someone who has not filed as an official write-in candidate will not be counted. I can find no indication that Wilson has actually filed such a written statement, and seriously suspect that this is just one of his typical publicity-driven gags. I hope that no one throws away their vote by writing him in (unless he does become a valid write-in candidate). Much better that they throw away their vote on one of the actual candidates 😉

[Spork]

Hail Eris!