Move over Jesse Ventura and Curtis Sliwa. Independence Party of America chairman Frank MacKay has sent a letter to the Republican presidential candidate Rep. Ron Paul asking him to consider running on his minor party line.
MacKay is hustling to find another contender after New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg bowed out last week and has already floated Minnesota's wrestling former governor and former head of the Guardian Angels, now a radio pundit, as potential contenders.
MacKay likes Paul, he says, because the Congressman "has an underground following that's second to noine and he's a folk hero." MacKay said Paul, who was facing a Congressional primary Tuesday night, could also run for both president and Congress at the same time on Texas' "LBJ" law.
Rick Brand
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John McCain, who has studiously ignored the discussions of an Indpendence movement, must love this. This candidacy can only hurt Obama and McCain.
Ah yes............yet another bucket of self promoting crap from Frank MacKay about Frank MacKay and promoted by Rick Brand at the expense of the public. Ron Paul has never heard of Frank Mackay and is not a candidate for President, nor is Ventura or the other self promoting paper tiger, Curtis Sliwa. All of this is an attempt to fill up Newsday with non-news.