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White House crasher running for VA Gov.
By Alexandra Petri, The Washington Post
How did former White House gate-crasher Tareq Salahi decide to run for governor of Virginia?
In his own words: ?I woke up thinking, ?Someone should do this.? And I thought, ?Wait a minute. I?m someone!???
This is an auspicious start. I hope he emblazons this phrase on his campaign merchandise. ?Wait a minute. I?m someone!? is about as good as it gets, catchphrase-wise. ?I think, therefore I am,? has nothing on it. Too deep. It reminds me of the immortal words of Pope John XXIII: ?It often happens that I wake up at night and begin to think about a serious problem and decide I must tell the pope about it. Then I wake up completely and remember that I am the pope.? But Mr. Salahi is not merely the pope. He is Someone.
Salahi said he was returning to his true loves ? politics, horses, and wine ? which is not quite how any candidate for Virginia governor has put it since the days of Thomas Jefferson.
This comes on the heels of the news that The Mighty Cuccinelli, current attorney general of Virginia and also in the running for the governor?s mansion, is suing Mr. Salahi to protect the public from his wine tours business. ?Cuccinelli alleged that Salahi?s wine tour business canceled tours, failed to make promised stops and refused to provide refunds,? The Post reported. For some reason this gives me a vision of unhappy Grouponers hurtling through the Virginia countryside on a speeding wine tour bus that refuses to let them get off. When the bus finally runs out of gas, one beleagered wine tourist (is that the term?) goes staggering out to beg assistance of passing drivers. ?Please,? he gasps, ?or we?ll be stuck on the Salahi Wine Country Tour Bus forever!?
But maybe I?m just getting carried away by the Cuccinelli retelling.
It?s been a rough few years for Tareq Salahi. First there was that gate-crashing spectacular. Then his wife, Michaele, and her spare A left him for a member of a rock band. Then he came under fire for charity involvements.
But you know what they say: When you?re flat on your back, there?s nowhere to go but run for governor of Virginia. Or something
Re: White House crasher running for VA Gov.
A rough few years? They forgot to mention him running his parent's once great winery into the ground, then suing them over it, having his own mother arrested during his attempted take over, the bankruptcy of the winery, a judge confiscating his "Patek Philippe" watch to be sold to pay debts owed to the gardener and then discovering that the watch was *gasp* a worthless fake. (And the best part of the story was the TV cameras filming him leaving the courthouse to find a ticket on his illegally parked car.) Its not a "few bad years", it's the karma train finally showing up.
Anyone dumb enough to give this man a dime for his campaign deserves to be ripped off.
I believe this is a plot by the State Reps because they know the sane people wont vote for Cuccinelli for Gov, but they *would* vote against Salahi.
I feel like there's a pitch for a Bravo show in here somewhere...
The Real Governor of Virginia?
Don't Be Tardy for the Inauguration?
Perhaps combine it with a dating show now that Michaele left him and call it "Most Eligible Richmond"?
Man, he's just... amazing. The wine tours business thing? Apparently it was a well-known scam by the wineries. I read an article that interviewed a guy who had shelled out $1200 for his daughter's bachelorette party, then the winery tour company wouldn't answer or return his calls. He started calling the wineries, and finally one told him that the Salahis were running a scam, and he was taken for a ride.
They're just the most shocking famewhores.