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Senator Jay Bulworth Runs For President
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
June 16, 2000
Contact
Greg Gaither
888-286-9488
info@bulworth2000.com
www.bulworth2000.com
Senator Jay Bulworth Announces
Presidential Write-In Campaign
CONTRA SUAVE, CA--March 24, 2000--Senator Jay Bulworth announced today
in front of the United Church of the Afflicted Brethren in this South
Central Los Angeles neighborhood that he is mounting a write-in campaign
for the Presidency of the United States.
Flanked by his campaign manager, Dennis Murphy, his wife Nina, and "LD,"
his National Economic Advisor, Bulworth decried the influence of what he
called "Big Money" on the political process in this country. Dressed in
what has become his trademark baggy denim shorts, a ski cap and dark
glasses, Bulworth pledged to fight for the voice of the individual and
to restore "sanity, dignity, and compassion, real compassion, not that
conservative crap" to the arena of presidential politics.
Jay Billington Bulworth, the former senator from California, has been
out of politics since he was shot following a stunning comeback victory
in the democratic primary race for Senate in 1996 in which he won 71
percent of the democratic vote for senator and nearly 15% of the
write-in vote for president. He said he was entering the presidential
race at this late date because "there has to be somebody else."
His central campaign issue is campaign finance reform. "I know," he
said, "what it's like to be a slave to the corporate machine. I had to
raise ten thousand dollars every day I was in Washington to survive. I
wasn't getting' it in South Central. I was getting' it in Beverly
Hills. So I was votin' in the Senate how they wanted me to, then I was
sendin' em' my bills."
"But we got babies in South Central," he continued, "dyin' as young as
they do in Peru. We got public schools that're nightmares, we got a
Congress that ain't got a clue."
"He communicates well in rhyme," Murphy stated following Bulworth's
brief announcement. "And don't you like the pants? They have a sort of
urban youthful quality, I think."
"He has such a great vision. I keep telling him that. He really has
the vision thing."
Bulworth's announcement was briefly interrupted as an unidentified man
engaged in a brief shoving match with Murphy and took the makeshift
stage in front of the old church. "We need a song," the man shouted.
"You got to sing, Bulworth. You got to be a spirit. And the spirit
will not descend without song."
Asked about his chances of success against Al Gore and George W. Bush in
November, the former senator looked at his wife, then up at an overcast
sky. Before he had a chance to respond, a clap of thunder overhead sent
the senator diving for cover under a section of red, white and blue
bunting.
"I got to be a spirit," Bulworth said.
More information about the Bulworth2000 campaign can be found at the
campaign's web site at www.bulworth2000.com.
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Bulworth Campaign Headquarters
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