Wednesday, October 14, 2009
Politics / Woods By the Powers! Pirate Party Guy Takes on Cooper
Posted by Jeff Woods on Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 3:10 PM
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Eat your heart out Markos Moulitsas. While Daily Kos and the rest of the liberal blogosphere plot and scheme to take down Congressman Jim Cooper, the Pirate Party has beaten them all to the punch! Aye, the Pirate Party and a swashbucklin' dude named Stephen Collings are vowing to challenge that scallywag Cooper in 2010. Yo-ho-ho! (Talking like a pirate is fun!)
According to this article, Collings, 25, a Nashville-based design engineer, hopes to become the first U.S. representative endorsed by the U.S. Pirate Party, which seeks to reform copyright laws and use technology to empower civic participation in government.
"My generation has spent their entire lives growing up and watching both major parties utterly fail to lead the country anywhere beneficial," Collings says. "There's going to be a backlash against the Democrats, but I think after the last eight years, people are going to be looking for options somewhere besides the GOP as well. The status quo is unacceptable. Congress as it stands is not doing its job. They need to be fired. We need to start over."You'll be pleased to know a party spokesman says, "Collings stands with us on the core Pirate Party issues." Arrrrhhhh!!!
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