Meet Jonathon ‘The Impaler’ Sharkey. His 2006 bid for governor of Minnesota was the subject of a documentary. His political past includes involvement in a Republican organization in New Jersey, plus bids for Congress from Florida and Indiana, and – an essential item on any nutball’s political resume – a run for president of the United States.
One would not expect the Sunshine State to attract too many vampires, if what we know from books and movies is true. But according to Jonathon Sharkey, we have something that the upper Midwest doesn’t – a functioning political system. In his own words:
Unlike the Nation Republican Party, Florida’s Republican Party, especially in Hillsborough County, has set the standards in this day and age of how the founding members of the GOP envisioned it to be over 150 years ago.
Read the rest of Laura Fiorilli’s post here.