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To: SiouxPal who wrote (43803)	10/17/2005 1:37:25 PM
From: Wharf Rat	Respond to of 362392

What the hell? Will I do? It wasn't Thompson's first taste of political shenanigans; as early as 1969--two years before he'd be crowned the gonzo king with Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas--he was getting his hands dirty, in this instance by trying to unseat the mayor of Aspen. Thompson started the Freak Power Party, got a 29-year-old hippie named Joe Edwards on the ballot, and mobilized to register the thousands of young people who had never felt the need to vote. It may have struck many as a prank, but the election's outcome must have made many an Aspen trophy wife shiver in their fur-lined moonboots: By some reports, Joe Edwards lost by only one vote. Heartened by the development--and by the blossoming of other Freak Power chapters across the country--Thompson himself ran for sheriff in 1970. The shaven-headed madman--who accurately sensed the Freak Power was becoming a magnet for disenfranchised youth-- lost a close election, but the defeat was anything but bitter. lasvegasmercury.com