Kimberly Williamson Butler To Be Parachuted In By Photoshop

Just as soon as she gets back from Disneyland.

New Orleans mayoral candidates [AP]

Earlier: Prior coverage of Kimberly Williamson Butler (scroll down)

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Crazy New Orleans Mayoral Candidate: End of an Era

Sadly, this is the header image that currently greets visitors to Kimberly Williamson Butler’s campaign website. We don’t know if it was our constant, affectionate coverage, or the less affectionate threats of legal action, but Ms. Butler is no longer enjoying a summer day in the Magic Kingdom in her campaign portrait.

But she’s not out of the woods yet — we have reason to believe that Butler has never actually stood in front of a giant mock-up of her campaign sign… aw, whatever. We’re bored with her. Bring on the next nutjob, please.

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Earlier: Kimberly Williamson Butler Continues to Astound Us

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Kimberly Williamson Butler Continues to Astound Us

Above, Butler’s website image as it appeared last week. Below, the image today. In both: Wonderous power of imagination.

So, Ms. Butler, after threats of action of Disney Lawyers, you took the time to photoshop the trashcan out of your header image there, but didn’t bother to go take a picture of you in the REAL NEW ORLEANS, WHERE YOU LIVE.

Well played, Butler. Well played.

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Earlier: Crazy New Orleans Mayoral Candidate Having a Bad Week

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Crazy New Orleans Mayoral Candidate Having a Bad Week

Ah, Kimberly Williamson Butler. In case you forgot, she’s the mayoral candidate in New Orleans whose website featured (jesus, still features) a picture of her grinning happily on a French Quarter street corner that, it seems, exists only in Disneyland. This despite her living in the actual New Orleans, of course. So we can all tell she’s a bit nuts. Unlike us, though, the Walt Disney Corporation is unamused:

A Disney public relations official confirmed Friday that the picture comes from the theme park’s “New Orleans Square,” and the company had been made aware of the unauthorized use of the image.

“We’ve referred this to our legal department,” said the official, who did not give his name, referring further questions to a Disney lawyer who could not be reached.

Kim just can’t catch a break. We’re still mulling over that Wonkette PAC idea some commenter suggested last week — if we get it off the ground, she’ll be the first non-former-male-escort beneficiary of our largesse (but only because a certain Floridian Senatorial candidate doesn’t need the dough). We need to foster crazy public officials wherever we can.

Butler Campaign Photo Is In La-La Land [Times-Picayune]
Earlier: Not Quite the Happiest Place On Earth
Crazy New Orleans Mayoral Candidate Update: Crazier Than We Thought
Update: Kimberly Williamson Butler Continues to Astound Us

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Crazy New Orleans Mayoral Candidate Update: Crazier Than We Thought!

Well, since this morning, we’ve confirmed it: that picture of New Orleans Mayoral Candidate Kimberly Williamson Butler was definitely taken in Disneyland. No streets in the French Quarter curve like that, among other obvious discrepancies. Now what kind of campaign would bother to so obviously fake a photo of the candidate standing on a corner in the city he or she actually lives in? Well, the kind of campaign whose candidate may have been too busy spending a couple nights in jail to take a real picture:

Ending one strange political saga by starting another, the clerk of New Orleans Criminal District Court, Kimberly Williamson Butler, surrendered herself to an irate criminal court judge Friday morning after a week of ignoring court orders and arrest warrants, and then walked outside the courthouse to announce her candidacy for mayor.

Butler — who’s from Buffalo, NY and moved to New Orleans in 1999 — was thrown in the clink for mishandling FEMA fund applications. After hiding out for a while, communicating via talk radio, she made the classic “turn yourself in as you announce your candidacy” move, which we feel like can only be done properly in Louisiana (didn’t the Kingfish do something like this? Or Earl Long, at least?).

She is Wonkette’s Crazy Mayoral Candidate of the Day. Congratulations, Kim. Don’t forget to vote.

Earlier: Not Quite the Happiest Place on Earth

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Not Quite the Happiest Place On Earth

So we don’t have too much of a stake in the New Orleans Mayoral elections and it’s a bit (or a lot) out of our usual purview, but someone sent us this tip that we just can’t pass up. We don’t know much about candidate Kimberly Williamson Butler, but we have been to New Orleans, and, uh, this picture doesn’t quite look right to us:
On the left, the header image of Butler’s campaign website. On the right, a picture of New Orleans Square in Disneyland. And, uh, we’re not sayin’, we’re just sayin’… frankly, we don’t remember what the trash cans looked like in the French Quarter, but the cleanliness of the street and the presence of fannypackin’ middle-Americans has us a wee bit suspicious.

And hell, maybe it’s not Disneyland. Maybe it’s Istanbul.

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Updates: Crazy New Orleans Mayoral Candidate Update: Crazier Than We Thought!

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Daily Briefing: ‘Outlandish and Inconceivable’

• Pentagon has a tentative plan to withdraw about 50,000 troops from Iraq over the next year. [WP]
• For oil executives who were involved in the energy task force, the truth depends on what the meaning of “participation” is. Sen. Frank Lautenberg’s (D-N.J.) definition: “If you’re doing anything more than breathing in the room when you’re there. Even if you’re a silent observer.” [WP]
• Bush allegedly talked to Tony Blair about bombing Al-Jazeera. Scott McClellan: “We are not interested in dignifying something so outlandish and inconceivable with a response.” [WP]
• FEMA will extend housing subsidies for Gulf Coast evacuees. [WP, NYT]
• Administration formally charges Jose Padilla ahead of Monday deadline; “the government has yet to settle on a consistent strategy for holding and punishing people it says are terrorists.” [NYT, NYT, WT, USAT, USAT]
• Judge delays decision on throwing out charges against Rep. Tom DeLay (R-Texas). [WP, LAT, NYT]

• Rep. Jean Schmidt (R-Ohio) doesn’t know what all the fuss is about: “I am amazed at what a national story this has become.” [WP]
• Bush pardons two turkeys and sends them to Disneyland. PETA flack: “It’s hard to argue with Disneyland.” [NYT]
• White House defends Samuel Alito on districting issue, saying he “has told senators that he believes ‘one man one vote’ is bedrock principle.” [NYT]
• Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) calls for a “limited drawdown” from Iraq: “Those of us in Washington have fallen behind the debate that is taking place across America on Iraq. We are failing to provide leadership on this issue.” [WP]

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