Man, we kinda liked this guy! He was (is?) dating that pretty gal from the Clinton campaign, and he recently dared to say something not entirely positive about Jon Stewart, and hell, he is not Michael Bloomberg, all of which made him a refreshingly human-seeming type to run for New York Mayor. But he will not do this thing, for several reasons. MORE »

Austin mayoral candidate Brewster “Phil” McCracken has ENRAGED the entire city of St. Louis by talking about how horrible they are, vis a vis the completely perfect city of Austin (which many an Austinite will assure you is “not like the rest of Texas” because they “keep it weird” with their single charming homeless man who parades around bus stops in a thong). Anyway, here’s a link to the offending campaign ad. (McCracken is “keeping it weird” by not allowing YouTube embeds, because why would you want people to look at your video all time?) MORE »

Here’s a liberal Democratic slob named Gary Becker, the mayor of Racine, Wisconsin. “As mayor,” the newspaper tells us, “he has been a proponent of regional solutions to problems in southeastern Wisconsin.” Right on. Also, he fucks children. MORE »

The geek world was outraged Friday when Philadelphia Mayor John Street was caught lining up for an iPhone like a common American. Everybody knows politicians don’t roll that way!

Wonkette Operative “JAC” went down to the AT&T store at 17th and Pennsylvania to get an iPhone. Not a huge line, but a line nonetheless. And then some shady characters in an unmarked sedan bummed out everybody … and by “everybody,” we mean “everybody but DC Mayor Adrian Fenty.”

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Ward 5 Councilman Vincent Orange is only expected to get about 5% of the vote in today’s D.C. mayoral primary.

But who believes polls these days? We’re still going to throw the full weight of a Wonkette Endorsement his way, because Orange’s commercials are incredible. Details after the jump ….

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