Minneapolis mayoral candidate emerges from swim to make campaign ad

New York had the "rent is too damn high". Alabama had "thugs and criminals" not giving "a rip." And now Minneapolis has a half-naked candidate for mayor emerging from a swim to proclaim: "I will not even go to the strip clubs anymore. Wake the f*** up!"

September 12, 2013 at 10:40PM

New York had the "rent is too damn high". Alabama had "thugs and criminals" not giving "a rip."

And now Minneapolis has a half-naked candidate for mayor emerging from a swim to proclaim: "I will not take money from the developers. I will not take money from the political angle. I will not even go to the strip clubs anymore. Wake the f*** up!"

Jeffery Alan Wagner, one of nearly three dozen candidates for the highest office in Minnesota's biggest city, then walks back into the water.

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