Gustavo Arellano wrote and provided video earlier in the week of Micky Mouth, the costumed write-in candidate for Anaheim City Council that Mayor Curt Pringle had tossed from a recent council meeting.
Mr. MM's true identity has yet to be revealed, although he does have a Facebook page.
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Here is what one discovers about the candidate from the page which, as of Tuesday morning, had 838 friends:
- His personal interests include “campaigning, puppets, me, you,
happiness, magic, the First Amendment, walking around” and “saying
words.”
- He is running for the Anaheim City Council “and it will be THE MOST MAGICAL POLITICAL RACE IN THE WORLD!!”
- “A VOTE FOR ME IS A VOTE FOR HAPPINESS.”
- He has challenged Pringle “to a no-holds mud
wrestling match. . . . Anytime, anyplace, sir. It's on your court now!”
- He has found campaigning difficult: “MAN!!!! POLITICIANS SAY A LOT OF WORDS!!! When I am elected these folks will be charged per word. (extra for angry words)”
- On his wall, he posted the following response in case someone has confused him with other cartoon characters hitting the campaign trail this election season: “I NEVER SAID 'TEA BAG.' I said 'TEA CUP,' like the ride where you sit in a tea cup and spin around. . . . STOP MISQUOTING ME HATERS.”
- He “hired two real MONKEYS too help me get the views up on my campaign
video. So far all I got is a room covered in poo and four broken
keyboards. . . . MAN!! . . . monkeys are kinda dumb.”
Some select Micky Mouth photos and captions on the next page . . .
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“The big time Hollywood film crew I hired said they would make all the green parts turn into wonderful images. . . . And i was like WHAT? And they were like HUH? And I was like “what are you guys . . . some kind of magical wizards?!”
“I am working hard for YOU!
“Well . . . for you and ME.
“OK, FOR ME. The point is I AM WORKING!!”
“SOME COOL KID SENT THIS TO ME . . . said she would be sending me a video soon. I think the cool kids vote is in the bag!”
Speaking of support, here are some select comments left on his page:
“I think this guy is a hoot! How funny to read political humor that bears no bias . . . it's just FUNNY!”
“The Palins are coming to support you. That's Sarah and Michael.”
“Hang in there, buddy…. Together we will win this battle!!!! Can i get yur autograph sumtime….. Yur # 1 fan VINCE!!!!!!!!”
“Stay tuned for a lawsuit from Disney.”
“You have more potential than most of the politicians that I have seen in local and federal politics for the last 10+ years.”
Finally, there is this video from Micky Mouth's first day on the campaign trail:
“WITH ALL THE HITS I'M GETTING ON MY CAMPAIGN VIDEO I THINK IT'S TIME TO START LOOKING AT 2012 . . . wink.”
OC Weekly Editor-in-Chief Matt Coker has been engaging, enraging and entertaining readers of newspapers, magazines and websites for decades. He spent the first 13 years of his career in journalism at daily newspapers before “graduating” to OC Weekly in 1995 as the alternative newsweekly’s first calendar editor.