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Munger for Governor!!
My grad school officemate, friend, and co-author Michael Munger (better known as the Chair of Duke's Political Science department and North American editor of the journal Public Choice is running for Governor of North Carolina). Sadly for Mike, when he chose among the many parties clamoring for him to be their standard bearer, he chose the Libertarian Party, which is not even on the ballot in the state!
Actually Mike is running to get the Libertarian Party back in the long term political debate in NC and is engaged in a signature drive to get the party on the ballot. Although I doubt that any libertarians read MR, I thought I'd give Mike a shout out and see if any supporters might emerge (NC natives for signatures and votes and true friends of liberty anywhere for $$$).
By the way, Mike's previous elected offices include being President of the Wash U. economics grad student association (which I'm pretty sure he rigged. I know for sure he rigged the election of his successor because I had massively stuffed the ballot box for a candidate who didn't win) so he may well be OVER-qualified for the post he seeks.
C'mon people, we can't let this happen:
Posted by Kevin Grier on May 24, 2007 at 02:14 PM in Political Science | Permalink
Comments
I'm libertarian, and I read MR. Unfortunately, I've also been persuaded by the economists's argument that voting is more trouble than it's worth.
Posted by: zlguocius at May 24, 2007 3:12:30 PM
I'm surprised. I'll bet most of the MR readers tend to be libertarians.
Posted by: Carlos Mendez at May 24, 2007 3:42:51 PM
Am I alone in perceiving Mike Munger as the last, best hope for saving the human race?
Posted by: gb at May 24, 2007 3:47:16 PM
Sarcasm gentlemen. And while the Libertarian movement is great, it's far from clear that the Libertarian Party has ever done any good. Michael Munger is by far the best candidate they've ever had.
Posted by: bh at May 24, 2007 3:47:30 PM
I saw this on a Poli-Sci Blog and thought it appropriate.
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"Mike Munger is a son of a bitch!"
"Mike Munger is the father of every kid in this town!"
"Mike Munger once showed me a video of him making love to my wife, and it was the most beautiful thing I ever saw!"
"One time I was with Munger in the back of a pickup truck, along with a live deer. Munger goes up to the deer and says, 'I'm Mike Munger! SAY IT!' Then he manipulates the deer's lips in such a way as to make it say, 'Mike Munger' ... It wasn't exactly like it, but it was pretty good for a deer!'"
"He'd eat a homeless person if you dared him!"
"His poop is used as currency in Argentina."
"He sweats Gatorade"
"He once breast-fed a flamingo back to health."
"He hated Mexicans! And he was half Mexican! .......And he hated irony!"
"I once saw him scissor kick Angela Landsbury."
"He sheds his skin once a year."
"He makes brooms somewhere in Georgia."
"He did 3 tours in 'Nam...... I was in Corpus Christi on business a month ago. I had this eight foot tall Asian waiter, which made me curious. I asked him his name. Sure enough it's Ho Tran Munger!"
"I once saw him eat a whole live chicken."
"He sleeps eight hours a night! ........ well, he was pretty normal when it came to that."
"Mike Munger was a two ton man-mountain who could palm a medicine ball!"
"Mike Munger had a four day heart attack...a day for each chamber. At the autopsy, they said his heart looked like a basketball filled with riccotta cheese."
"He once punched a hole in a cow just to see who was coming up the road."
"He taught me how to make love to a woman, and how to scold a child."
"They found $60 in change in his stomach."
"He did all the makeup on the 'Planet of the Apes' movie."
"He grew a 3rd arm and kept it in a vault."
"Munger drank a full glass of liquid LSD with his eggs. Then he slept for 8 months straight. When he woke he rubbed his eyes and said, 'All in all, I prefer gin.'"
"They say Gene Roddenbery got the idea for Star Trek from listening to Munger talk in his sleep."
"He date raped David Bowie."
"He once inhaled a seagull."
"The Pope told him it was ok to have a mistress."
2/14/2007 11:36 AM
Posted by: Ho Tran Munger at May 24, 2007 4:27:57 PM
To Ho Tran Munger: You are a bona fide genius. That is the most fantastic comment ever left on a blog, anywhere.
Well....okay. It is the best comment I have seen today.
As for the "no libertarians" thing, there are two ways to tell if Kevin Grier is being sarcastic: his lips are moving (if in person), or he has typed something (if contributing to a blog).
As the allegations of vote fraud in graduate school: Those were not "informed" votes, and my decision to discard was guided by the highest principles of democracy as a device for discoving truth. In other words, it was, indeed, outright theft.
But, mostly, Ho Tran: props to you, dude. Major props.
Posted by: mungowitz at May 24, 2007 4:41:28 PM
Mike Munger does two things: chew gum and kick ass. And right now, he's outa gum.
Posted by: Brad Hutchings at May 24, 2007 5:26:05 PM
Mike Munger once built a wall he couldn't jump over, then bodyslammed to the ground.
Posted by: Student at May 24, 2007 5:34:47 PM
Mike Munger once gave me one of his campaign bumper stickers, but made me promise that I wouldn't actually put it on my car....
Posted by: Ari at May 24, 2007 5:58:31 PM
The perfect venue to launch this campaign would be The Michael Medved Show.
Posted by: Patrick R. Sullivan at May 24, 2007 6:00:05 PM
I can't take the credit I just saw it on this blog:
https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=36608343&postID=116812281872572196
Posted by: Ho Tran Munger at May 24, 2007 7:12:47 PM
I agree with mungowitz, that was some genius material up there. Reminds me of a guy I met in college. He was funny. True story.
Posted by: mk at May 24, 2007 7:14:09 PM
I drink my coffee from a Munger4Governor mug in Argentina (where they use his poop as currency).
Posted by: Courtney at May 24, 2007 7:38:17 PM
Chalk me up as another libertarian (small L) MR reader.
Posted by: B.D. at May 24, 2007 10:00:27 PM
emails produced by MR. a recent selection:
> Subject: weird
> your advisor is running for governor?!?!?
> come to think of it, i wish mine were running for president, actually.
and then moments later:
> Subject: and, dude,
> he’s a libertarian?????????????
Posted by: t at May 25, 2007 12:17:44 AM
Okay, time for payback:
Ari: I have another bumper sticker. I promise I won't put it on your mom.
Courtney: sigh. Please bring back some Argentine currency for me. Or perhaps I should send you some. You can have a nice dinner on me.
MK: Damn! I knew the same guy. Small world city.
Student: Listen, pumpkin...I am OMNIPOTENT! I can easily build a wall I can't jump over. Wait....that's not right.
Posted by: mungowitz at May 25, 2007 8:39:26 AM
I would make a contribution to Munger 4 Gov but since I have dealings with Editor Munger, I would hate to create the appearance of a quid pro quo.
-- William Jefferson
P.S. Are there campaign disclosure laws in NC? Munger, give me a call, i have bundles of ..... "stuff" for your freezer.
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