[Newspoetry] JIM TAYLOR FOR PRESIDENT

[Paul Kotheimer]

this week's Madison ISTHMUS reports that local indie filmmaker JIM TAYLOR 
is attempting "the ultimate in performance art" by (get this!) running 
for president without any corporate funding--and making a movie about it 
at the same time.

here's a snippet from the article:

'With eight campaign staff here in the Mad City, a film crew of six 
snipping clips in St. Paul, a pile of USC friends working on distrobution 
in L. A., and a host of volunteers across the country throwing 
fund-raising dinners (mac 'n' cheese soirees at $15 a head), Taylor is 
reaching through the gauzy fabric of "Generation Next" to make his dent 
with a campaign called <RUN SOME IDIOT.>  He'll be 35 by the time he 
hopes to tromp his way into office, and while he realizes it won't be "a 
cakewalk" to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, he is hoping to get off to a good 
start by winning key hotbeds of unrest ("like the isthmus") in the 
primaries...'

Parallels to the geurilla journalism of Michael Moore, of course, abound, 
and Taylor's movie biz agent Dionell Guanco is spinning the campaign, and 
the film about the campaign, exactly that way.  From <The Isthmus> again:

" 'Jim is the idea!' Guanco titters. 'And that's what's so original.  
It's refreshing.  It's commercial.  I've always wanted to take on 
something like this.' "

I say, let's call Jim Taylor and throw him one of those "mac 'n' cheese 
soirees at $15 a head" here in Champaign-Urbana!  I'll post more info., 
after I get a response from Madison. 

does that count as good news?
paul
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