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Someone that young, my big question would be "who's advising you".

Still, good luck kid, it'll be interesting to see if he gets involved in politics on a slightly less ambitious scale after this effort fails. Hope he doesn't end up Vermont's Goodspaceguy. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodspaceguy)

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> Someone that young, my big question would be "who's advising you".

That seems like a great question for candidates of any age.

Goodspaceguy seems way cooler than New Jersey's perennial candidate Jeff Boss: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Boss

While we’re on the topic of fringe candidates, I’d like to plug my all-time favorite political contender: Vermin Supreme.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vermin_Supreme

I wrote in to Vermin Supreme asking for endorsement when I ran for hugh school president, promising to make a whole bunch of whacky and unsustainable rules.

Unfortunately (and understandably) I wasn't elected, but getting to say that I was backed by a US presidential candidate over the PA system was fun. I still have his email printed out in a memory box somewhere.

Check out Rick Mercer - Talking to Americans. Its on YouTube. The whole show is great, but aging now. But he gets various members of congress to endorse Canada building a national igloo among other things.

There is also Jacob Haugaard. [0] He was actually elected to the Danish parliament in 1994 on the promises such as better weather, more tailwind on bicycle paths and shorter queues in supermarkets.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Haugaard

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