[Vision2020] [CORRECTED LINK] Alabama Candidate Campaigns on Cleavage

[Tom Hansen]

>From the Guardian Unlimited at:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-6166279,00.html

Is this what being a Libertarian is all about?

Loretta Nall's campaign t-shirt:

http://www.cafepress.com/content/products/img-bleed/clear.gif

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Alabama Candidate Campaigns on Cleavage 

Monday October 23, 2006 7:16 PM

By PHILLIP RAWLS 

Associated Press Writer 

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) - Loretta Nall, the Libertarian Party's write-in
candidate for governor of Alabama, is campaigning on her cleavage and hoping
that voters will eventually focus on her platform. 

``It started out as a joke, but it blew up into something huge,'' said Nall,
a 32-year-old with dyed blond hair. 

Her campaign is offering T-shirts and marijuana stash boxes adorned with a
photo of her with a plunging neckline and the words: ``More of these
boobs.'' Below that are pictures of other candidates for governor -
including Republican incumbent Bob Riley and Democratic Lt. Gov. Lucy Baxley
- and the words: ``And less of these boobs.'' 

Nall, who spoke in an interview Friday on the Capitol steps, realizes that
is about as close as she is going to get to the governor's office. But her
outrageous antics have helped her attract attention not normally enjoyed by
write-in candidates. 

Nall is calling for the withdrawal of the Alabama National Guard from Iraq,
tax credits for sending children to private school and home schooling,
opting out of the No Child Left Behind Act, legalizing marijuana, and not
complying with the Patriot Act and the Real ID Act. 

The Libertarian Party could not collect the 40,000 voter signatures needed
to get her name on the ballot, and she has not reached the $25,000 threshold
in contributions that would require her to file a campaign finance report. 

Despite the political handicaps, she knows how to get free attention. 

Early in her campaign, she talked about how her misdemeanor arrest for
marijuana possession in 2002 led her to start the U.S. Marijuana Party. 

Then she entertained readers of her campaign Web site with lots of
information about her personal life, including a discussion of why she
doesn't wear panties.

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Seeya round town, Moscow.

Tom Hansen
Vandalville, Idaho

"Politicians are like diapers.  They should be changed frequently and for
the same reason."

- Robin Williams