As obnoxious as the top ticket race has been, no candidate has grated the nerves of us here at NDH than one Erik Houser, who's making another run for a senate seat in the Class of 2010. You've seen his flyers: he's the one striking silly poses above trite quotations about living life to the fullest or racing or some shit. He has also claimed a campaign keyword, much like Barack Obama's "hope" and "change" -- it's "apathy." Apathy? Say, readers, why would an apathetic person run for office? (Twice?) We would also like to know how any government-public policy major (according to facebook) would ever be apathetic towards even mock government.
We'll give the devil his due; Houser's facebook group is damn funny. It's also a smart sendup of the empty promises and ritualistic gestures of your standard SA campaign. NDH tips its hat to the humor. Problem is, there is every indication that Houser will shed this shtick like... like... oh, I'm out of metaphors at the moment. Please supply your own.
If we thought for a moment that Houser would continue to play the jester in office (and regrettably, we do fully expect him to win in this small race), he would probably earn our endorsement. If you have any doubt as to his true intentions, look at his own group. The other four candidates in that race -- friendly, upstanding gentlemen all -- created a communal group for their four candidacies. At the prospect of being left out of the club, Houser collapses into hysterics. He betrays himself by including his shrill response that Mssrs. Dunleavey, Gillingham, Nelson, and Newman so generously removed.
In conversation, I've been referring to Houser as a Trojan horse. Unfortunately, the Trojan Horse worked.
-KY
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