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Push on to have John Mellencamp running for Senate
There maybe a Sen. John Mellencamp in the near future.
There is a mounting push to have the liberal rocker seek a senate seat.
At least three Facebook pages, including Draft John Mellencamp for Senate!, have been set up supporting Mellencamp’s bid for the seat being vacated by Indiana’s Democratic Sen. Evan Bayh.
And it doesn’t stop there.
Brent Budowsky, a former aide to Bayh’s father, Senator Birch Bayh, voiced his support of the Hoosier rocker on the The Hill’s Pundit’s blog.
“John Mellemcamp is one of the great advocates of small-town America, of the kind of “square deal” for Americans that Teddy Roosevelt once championed. He is a voice for working people and a champion of farmers who puts his talent, his body and his money behind his words,” Budowsky wrote.
On Thursday, a Mellencamp spokesman told the Associated Press that the “Our Country” singer and Farm Aid co-founder ”has no statement to offer.”
What do you think?
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By r
February 19, 2010 11:09 AM | Link to this
i hope this is a joke
By rmhs
February 19, 2010 11:27 AM | Link to this
Only joke is to the people who thinks he would make a good senator. BUT then we have one in the WH that has less Biz Exp then JCM. I mean at least JCM knows how to run a Biz compared to the one inthe WH. JCM has bal his budget and pay his bills without going to the bank to get loans to paythem. Shhot the more I think about it, the more JCM maybe a good senator, just like that clown from Mn..
By irishguy
February 19, 2010 11:47 AM | Link to this
John “Cougar” Mellonhead isn’t much of a musician, can’t imagine he’d make much of a politician.
By Cougar fan
February 19, 2010 1:40 PM | Link to this
Mellencamp has not said he is interested, but we had an actor as President, Calif. has an actor governor, Minn. had a wrestler governor, Mass. has a male model Senator, and Ohio has a clown Representaitve. Why not a singer Senator?
By bob
February 19, 2010 1:46 PM | Link to this
I hope Ted Nugent runs for office!!!
By Vice Prez Eminem
February 19, 2010 2:27 PM | Link to this
Let’s get Ozzie Osborne to run for President. He couldn’t possibly do any worse than Barry Obamer. At least he’s tough enough to bite off a head now and again.
By SmartOne
February 21, 2010 7:37 PM | Link to this
Ozzy can”t run for President Dumb A*s, he wasn’t born in the U.S.A.