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His campaign photo is an oil canvas painting...
Treasurer Paul Rux highlights a Ph.D status...
The candidate bio emphasizes he only recently moved to WI (2004)...
Just to be "near his grand kids.."
Is a perennial losing candidate...
In California...
As a Libertarian Party candidate...
And now a Republican Party candidate...
Is running because the incumbent is "semi-retired..."

Wow. On how many levels is this just whacked?

Lemme see; A divorced grandparent who moves to my state barely two years ago after many failed efforts at public office in California, sets-out to instruct me that former President William Howard Taft is the right role model for the US Senate and the nation; a president many considered a dithering idiot, including his predecessor, Teddy Roosevelt.

Hmmmm, why am I hearing children's voices pleading, no Grandpa, please don't saddle me with this. High school civics is tough enough without having to read a case study on how not to run for elected office - featuring my grandfather.

UPDATE: The Political Graveyard has California Libertarian candidate Dave Redick still living, as of 1982.