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An anonymous Artie Lange fan who refers to himself only as “Bob Abouey” has started a grass roots campaign to elect the Howard Stern Show co-host as the next Mayor of Hoboken, New Jersey. Hoboken’s recently elected Mayor Peter Cammarano served only 30 days in office before being he was arrested for participating in an international corruption scandal. A special election for the Mayor of Hoboken position is scheduled for this November.
On August 11th, Bob Abouey launched a press release announcing the Artie Lange for Mayor campaign. In addition to praising Artie Lange for his down-to-earth life approach,
Bob Abouey pointed to several other qualities that made him a good match for the Hoboken Mayor position:
“A former longshoreman with a rap sheet should have no problem getting elected in Hoboken. It’s practically a requirement. The fact that he was All-County in high school is icing on the cake.”
Abouey openly admits that the Artie Lange for Mayor campaign doesn’t have the official endorsement of the candidate himself. Artie Lange’s boss Howard Stern, however, is in full support of the campaign. The King of All Media suggested it would be a good opportunity for Lange to do some public service. Howard Stern also suggested that as his first order of business, Artie Lange could pardon himself for his recent DUI charge. And on top of it all, offered Stern as an additional selling point: “You could legalize heroin.”
With Stern’s encouragement, Artie Lange took an on-air moment to contemplate his platform and then proudly announced:
“I would legalize all drugs and tax the s--- out of them,” said Lange. With Artie Lange as Mayor, it seems Hoboken would become a real life version of “Hamsterdam” from Season 3 of The Wire.
And what Artie Lange do with all of that drug revenue? “Police would get $200,000 a year and firemen would start at $150,000.”
Sounds like Lange’ll get the public servants’ votes for sure.
To learn more about the Artie Lange for Mayor of Hoboken, New Jersey campaign visit: www.mayorartie.com
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With Fridays off and all the vacations at least Artie has a lot of time off from the Stern show that he can devote to running Hoboken.
My son is waisting his life waiting for the news from that stupid website every morning. Every morning I say "Chen, you go get job, you go make paycheck" and every morning he just say "no mom, I am waiting for news from stupid website." Please, heavens, help him to be a more contributable member of society.
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