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S.C. Write-In Candidate Says He’s ‘Not a Total Moron’
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| Last Edited | RBH Oct 30, 2010 10:49pm |
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| Author | Bernie Becker |
| News Date | Friday, October 29, 2010 04:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Karl Fornes has chosen a pretty direct slogan for his write-in campaign for Senate in South Carolina: “He’s not a total moron.”
As you might expect with a tag line like that, Mr. Fornes’s Senate bid has a tongue-in-cheek quality to it. But in a quick telephone interview on Wednesday evening, Mr. Fornes said there was also a serious goal to the shoestring, long-shot campaign he started several weeks ago: shining more light on what he thinks are the underwhelming major-party candidates in the race — Senator Jim DeMint, the Republican and overwhelming favorite, and the surprise Democratic nominee, Alvin Greene.
“I was at an impasse in trying to figure out who to vote for,” said Mr. Fornes, who is on the faculty of the English department at the University of South Carolina, Aiken. “So I bought a few signs and buttons to see if anyone else wanted to vote for me.”
Mr. Fornes’s Web site and his interviews further illustrate the part-joking, part-protest feel to his campaign. He has criticized Mr. DeMint — a conservative who has thrown a fair amount of weight around this midterm cycle to help out like-minded Senate candidates — for being more concerned with politics than with policy. (Nathalie Dupree, another write-in candidate in the race, has made a similar point.) |
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