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Richie Antipuna drops out of City Commissioner race, he announces from swimming pool.
Bad news for fans for a City Commissioner Richie Antipuna - but good news for fans of the Richie Antipuna Show: Antipuna, an unendorsed Green Party candidate for Councilman At-Large, will be dropping out of the race, he announced from his backyard swimming pool.
Richie Antipuna drops out of City Commissioner race, he announces from swimming pool.
Richie Antipuna, a Green Party candidate for City Commissioner (who was not endorsed by the Green Party), will be dropping out of the race following legal challenges to his petition, the Kenzington man announced today from the comfort of his backyard swimming pool, according to a press release from his campaign today.
The release states:
"Following his withdrawal, Richie Antipuna, who was interviewed while relaxing in his back-yard pool in Kensington, said, “I feel like the Ralph Nader of Philadelphia,” referring to the 2004 Green Party candidate for President of the United States. Ralph Nader’s name was never allowed to appear on the ballot, and Pennsylvania’s voters were never free to vote for him or against him. ...
... The Democrats and Republicans use the law to slap the little guy in the face,” charged Antipuna. “Anyone who leaves a major party to run for election is punished for leaving their party. Political parties in Philadelphia are like posses, street gangs from the 1980s. If you pull out of one posse, you get beat up by all of them."
This will certainly come as bad news to supporters of Antipuna for City Commissioner — but, perhaps, as good news to fans of the Richie Antipuna Show, a web video show about Kensington. If you haven't checked it out yet, you really need to. Here's a sample quote:
"It has been widely reported that School Superintendent Arlene Ackerman, who recently laid of 1,500 school workers and ... came ... and ... injunction? What the fuck does that mean? 'Came and injunction?' You gotta stop this shit."
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