Posted on 10/20/2010 1:51:56 PM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia
Your rent may be too damn high, but Jimmy McMillan's sure isn't.
The Vietnam vet stole the spotlight at the gubernatorial sideshow debate earlier this week, bellowing his campaign platform and party banner, "The rent is too damn high."
But McMillan's indignant pontification doesn't appear to stem from personal experience. As it turns out, he doesn't pay rent at all -- and hasn't done so since the 1980s, according to a published report.
McMillan missed payments on his $800-a-month one-bedroom apartment in Flatbush and his landlord allowed him to live rent free in exchange for maintenance work, reports The New York Times.
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I’m guessing rat party since it wasn’t mentioned in the first sentence?
Well, sheeeeit! Obama was ‘spose to pay that rent, man!
I wonder if Jimmy McMillan did his fighting in Vietnam alongside Dick Blumenthal.
You guys in New York have my sympathy, you really, really do.
No.
He’s in the “Rent Is 2 Damn High” party.
I wish I made this up.
No, he’s part of the “Rent is Too Damn High” party. I kid you not.
No - his party is “The Rent is Too Damn High” party.
Judging from the bits of the debate I saw it’s the candidate himself that’s too @#$% high.
Minor party candidate I think
The video of his performance at the debate has gone viral - you should try to find it. Wouldn’t want him anywhere near a position of power, but it was entertaining!
Why am I not surprised?
A VietNam Vet had all sorts of opportunities to go to college, and buy a house...he evidently did not make an effort to further his station in life, is my guess. Working for the Post office does not pay bad, either. What did he do with it all?
I am embarassed that I live in NY and we just allow anyone to run for office.
But this guy was hilarious
England used to have the “Monster Raving Looney Party”.
Could you run that through Babelfish so we can get it in English, please?
Didn’t they sit a MP at one point in the late 70s?
A viable candidate? Of course not, entertaining, absolutely.
Shhhhh, he’s stealing votes from Cuomo.
I seem to recall them being a 1990s phenomenon, and that they did achieve some minor electoral success including at least one MP.
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