Thanks to super blogger Jason Tolbert for keeping up with all of the Republicans wanting to run for the U.S. Senate. His blog points me to news that Trevor Drown, hunter of Taliban and Al-Qaeda, has announced that he’s running for U.S. Senate as an Independent. I’m not sure why; maybe it was all of Curtis Coleman’s bloggin’ or Conrad E. Reynolds imposing middle initial (emphasis added). Surely it wasn’t that soothsayer Kim Hendren. Oh well, Mr. Drown is in, which should make for lots of blogging fun assuming he gets on the ballot.
Don’t forget to take a look at his Web site. He has three Mr. Rogers-like videos on his site where he’s standing behind a pick-up truck attaching stickers to bottles of water and mumbling about a variety of things, looking occasionally at the camera to drive home a point. The first video is incoherent, but the second two attack the Arkansas lottery and more specifically the lottery executive director, whom he declares “the lottery winner”. Not really sure what he’s going for here from a campaign issue perspective, particularly when he says, as for those of you that are responsible for this (namely, the compensation) “we’ll deal with you come 2010.” He sounds real serious when he says it though, which isn’t like Mr. Rogers at all. And he ditched the cardigan sweater for some cargo pants.
Someone should remind Mr. Drown, though, that the lottery is a state issue and that even if he makes it all the way to Washington (which is kind of like saying that I’m going to make it all to way to the moon with a couple of bottle rockets and a picture of Sally Ride) the U.S. Senate still won’t have jurisdiction over the Arkansas lottery.