And yet, this only made it to number 3 on my hometown paper’s “The Top 10 reasons Sarasota is Capital Weird.”
While attending the Wausau Possum Festival, U.S. Senate candidate Katherine Harris, R-Longboat Key, holds up a possum by its tail. Harris is lauded by rural Washington County voters for her skill in shaking the possum while holding it.
[read the whole list. and weep]
In Harris’s defense (words I never thought I’d type without Dick Cheney’s gun to my head), while you display the possum you’re auctioning, you apparently have to shake the ugly bastard to keep it from crawling up your arm and biting you. That said, the picture is still damned funny even though it’s been floating around for weeks.
Can you say, “Campaign in disarray?”
so the odd thing here is that the candidate is holding the possum and shaking it? Not that there is indeed a Possum festival? al-righty, then….
Doesn’t everyone have a possum festival? :)
This campaign has been such a trainwreck I’m only sad I’ve had to watch it from 1000 miles away.