» Govenor http://badtouchgoodtouch.com Mon, 06 May 2013 20:24:14 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Jonathon “The Impaler” Sharkey http://badtouchgoodtouch.com/2011/01/29/jonathon-%e2%80%9cthe-impaler%e2%80%9d-sharkey/ http://badtouchgoodtouch.com/2011/01/29/jonathon-%e2%80%9cthe-impaler%e2%80%9d-sharkey/#comments Sat, 29 Jan 2011 20:27:04 +0000 Jimmy Lee Wirt http://badtouchgoodtouch.com/?p=81 Jonathon “The Impaler” Sharkey threw himself into the race for Minnesota Governor on January 13, 2006. His thirteen point platform included helping farmers, improving the public school system, and advocating for better benefits for United States veterans. However, it was his “coming out” to the media as a Hecate Witch, Satanic Dark Priest and Sanguinary Vampire that grabbed Jonathon national and international attention. His candidacy marked the beginning of the largest amount of media coverage ever given to an unknown third party candidate running for Governor in American history.

“Minnesota has hosted an interesting run of political candidates, from retired wrestler Jesse Ventura (Minnesota governor from 1999 to 2003) to former Saturday Night Live star Al Franken (the contested winner of a U.S. Senate seat in 2008). But perhaps the most intriguing candidate was Jonathan Sharkey, a self-proclaimed Satanic Vampire and Hecate Witch, who ran for the office of Minnesota governor in 2006. W. Tray White’s documentary Impaler follows Sharkey as he contends with the media frenzy inspired by his 13-point political platform which includes impaling criminals on the lawn of the governor’s mansion.”



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