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The ‘Rent is Too Damn High’ guy returns! And he’s running for prez.
The Brooklyn Paper ^ | December 20, 2010 | Allen McDuffie

Posted on 12/19/2010 10:32:28 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

Some people might find a rock to crawl under after failing to get even one percent of the vote in an election — but Jimmy McMillan is not some people.

Just two months after his gubernatorial thrashing, the standardbearer of the much-cited, but largely unsupported, “Rent is Too Damn High” party, took the stage on Thursday night at Europa in Greenpoint to dabble in his other source of marginal notoriety: music.

Donning his signature facial hair, black suit and gloves, McMillan performed tracks from the hip-hop and funk-inspired home-recorded album that he released earlier this month. Naturally, he kept true to his seemingly singular focus; “The Rent is Too Damn High, Vol. 1,” features songs such as “Land Lord Listen Up,” “R.E.N.T.,” “Rent Party Christmas,” and one ballad, “My Place.”

McMillan’s play list oscillated between activist, folk-like songs and club jams with the help from a DJ and a single back-up singer and dancer, Isla Cheadle, whom McMillan recruited from YouTube after seeing a video of her dancing to his song, “Ain’t Nothing to Talk About.”

A serious performance, this was not: the 65-year-old McMillan, a self-styled martial arts expert, closed out one song with a karate kick and the comment, “I bet you thought that was a karate kick. … I had gas.”

Though music was on the bill, politics were still McMillan’s talking points. He lost to some write-in candidates for governor, but now McMillan says he’ll run for president in 2012 — as a Republican.

“Nobody can touch me.” Not even Sarah Palin? “No way. She doesn’t have what I have,” said McMillan. What does he “have”? McMillan declined to go further.

With McMillan, one is always left with a simple question: Why.

Why run as “the Rent is Too Damn High” guy when you know the news is going to come out, as it did during the gubernatorial campaign, that you don’t even pay rent yourself?

Why mention a presidential run when you’ve got nothing to talk about?

“Let’s let everybody enjoy the holidays,” said McMillan adding, “We can talk about [it] later.”

Why? Why, it’s the wrong question, friends. Jimmy McMillan isn’t a musician. He isn’t a politician. He isn’t a rent control activist. He’s just a guy who can’t help feel the love so bad that he has to just let it out.

Leaving Europa, McMillan was about to get into his “Rent is Too Damn High” poster-covered car, but he couldn’t help turning to a passerby to let one last nugget fall from his moustached lips.

“Buy your girl some nice shoes for Christmas,” he said, and slipped out into the night.


TOPICS: Local News; Politics; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: 2012; gop; jimmymcmillan; palin
He's probably more qualified than the current occupant. Which ain't saying much...
1 posted on 12/19/2010 10:32:34 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Probably can prove he was born in the USA with no problem.


2 posted on 12/19/2010 10:34:49 PM PST by The Cajun
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Just had a great idea - he can run on a ticket with the “Pants on the Ground” guy. What fun that would be!


3 posted on 12/19/2010 11:12:10 PM PST by llandres
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The rent’s not the only thing that’s high.


4 posted on 12/19/2010 11:14:31 PM PST by Beowulf9
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
The current occupant never paid a days rent in his life. He is a dyed in the wool deadbeat.


5 posted on 12/19/2010 11:21:29 PM PST by Lazlo in PA (Now living in a newly minted Red State.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Rent Too High Guy/Alvin Greene 2012


6 posted on 12/19/2010 11:28:50 PM PST by Avery Iota Kracker (He hate me.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Isn`t the White House Section 8 rental Property?


7 posted on 12/19/2010 11:37:45 PM PST by bunkerhill7
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I like the “So I know whose @ss to kick” song. That guy should run for something.


8 posted on 12/19/2010 11:42:28 PM PST by Lauren BaRecall (I pledge to support Boehner's opponent in the 2012 Republican Primary for the 8th District of Ohio.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Dittos .... Bump


9 posted on 12/19/2010 11:46:26 PM PST by TexasTransplant (I don't mind liberals... I hate liars...there just tends to be a high degree of overlap)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“The Rent Is Too Damn High” song:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gg5SwyTvAHw


10 posted on 12/20/2010 12:27:26 AM PST by Pinkbell
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I have a feeling we are about to reach an all-time high in our number of presidential candidates.


11 posted on 12/20/2010 2:22:29 AM PST by 9YearLurker
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I think I’ll cross over during the primaries - he needs our support.


13 posted on 12/20/2010 4:03:06 AM PST by nomodem
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