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Jimmy McMillan, Rent Is Too Damn High Candidate, Is Retiring From Politics

The New York Times reports:

Jimmy McMillan, the whiskered political showman who became a viral Internet star when he ran for governor of New York in 2010 as a candidate of the Rent Is Too Damn High Party, has announced his retirement from the political arena, citing a lack of public support for his agenda.

In a news release infused with misspellings and other errors that was dated Tuesday, Mr. McMillan said voters had been “totally brainwashed” and criticized Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo and Mayor Bill de Blasio, both Democrats, for not securing “a rent reduction for the people in the cities of Brooklyn, Bronx, Staten Island, Manhattan and Queens.”

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4 Comments

  1. paulie December 20, 2015

    I hope and expect he will be back.

  2. Joshua K. December 14, 2015

    Maybe the rent wasn’t as high as he thought it was.

  3. Robert Capozzi December 14, 2015

    worst news of the decade,

  4. Dave Terry December 13, 2015

    Jimmy McMillan, the whiskered political showman who became a viral Internet star when he ran for governor of New York in 2010 as a candidate of the Rent Is Too Damn High Party,

    Actually his candidacy was short circuited by the Talk Is Too Damn CHEAP Party!

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