Musicians In Political Office

[Horseleech]

Kadink said:Wasn't the first post-Soviet president of Czechoslovakia in Plastic People?




Vaclav Havel?





No, he was an ally and helped to write a famous piece in response to their imprisonment, but he was not an actual member.

 

[mrmatthew]

Musicians in office never ends well.

 

[Rockadelic]

Fred_Garvin said:Skunk Baxter - not an official, but somehow managed to build a career as a high-level defense consultant, despite having zero background or education in that area, or in any sort of engineering/science/technology field, other than his own natural curiosity... and the fact that he was able to get his congressman to read a paper he'd written on the subject. Also despite having done an amount of cocaine that would kill an average scientist.




I hope one day there is a movie made about Skunk

 

[skel]

Screaming Lord Sutch started his own political party back in the 60s - the Monster Raving Loony Party - and whilst never getting elected to Parliament, the party ran candidates in many campaigns, mostly in high-viz by-elections.





Natch, it was a publicity stunt that got out of hand and took on a life of its own away from publicising a failing music career.





Interestingly, although the party's policies were generally designed to be mildly outrageous and not to be taken seriously, many have since become law at various points. 24 hour opening of pubs, for example.





This surely counts as success, of sorts.





FWIW, his music was shite IMHO.

 

[Rockadelic]

skel said:Screaming Lord Sutch




Our version of Sutch was a comedian named Pat Paulson who was a regular on the Smothers Brothers Show....a quiet, deadpan milqetoast fellow, he ran for President every four years from the '68-'96....he passed away in '97....his son Monty is apparently throwing his hat in the ring for 2012.

 

[LaserWolf]

Rockadelic said:skel said:Screaming Lord Sutch




Our version of Sutch was a comedian named Pat Paulson who was a regular on the Smothers Brothers Show....a quiet, deadpan milqetoast fellow, he ran for President every four years from the '68-'96....he passed away in '97....his son Monty is apparently throwing his hat in the ring for 2012.




I listened to one of his lps last year and was surprised how funny it was.


Seems like other comedians pulled this stunt, but none (that I know of) were successful until Al Franken*.














*Unless you want to count Reagan and Schwarzenegger.

 

[Horseleech]

 

[The_Hook_Up]

http://wonkette.com/446452/jon-huntsman-dd-nerd-who-played-keyboards-in-band-called-wizard

 

[bluesnag]

Rockadelic said:Fred_Garvin said:Skunk Baxter - not an official, but somehow managed to build a career as a high-level defense consultant, despite having zero background or education in that area, or in any sort of engineering/science/technology field, other than his own natural curiosity... and the fact that he was able to get his congressman to read a paper he'd written on the subject. Also despite having done an amount of cocaine that would kill an average scientist.




I hope one day there is a movie made about Skunk




A friend of mine sent me a news video about this and it completely blew my mind. Out of nowhere dude just starting writing a paper about missile defense systems or something, just like that. Cocaine is a helluva drug.

 

[rrbeats2004]

haitian zouk legend jean philippe marthely running for president

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