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JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Levi Johnston may be following in Sarah Palin’s footsteps.
Johnston’s manager, Tank Jones, on Monday confirmed a report on Variety magazine’s website that Johnston is planning to run for city office in his hometown of Wasilla, Alaska, as part of a reality TV show.
Wasilla is where Palin got her start in politics, moving up from City Council to mayor before winning election as Alaska’s governor in 2006.
Jones said Johnston is serious about a run, either for mayor or City Council.
“Let me put it to you like this: If you live in a town and things are happening in that town, and you’re displeased with it, what do you do? You try to change those things,” Jones said.
He declined to give specifics on what Johnston wants to change but insisted the run is real. “This is not a spoof. This is not a joke,” Jones said.
According to the Wasilla city clerk, the next mayoral election is in 2011. The candidate filing period for council elections this October closed July 30. Johnston isn’t listed among those candidates.
Wasilla’s outspoken current mayor, Verne Rupright, was at a meeting Monday and didn’t immediately return a call seeking comment.
Johnston, 20, is the father of Palin’s grandson, Tripp, and the recently off-again flame to her daughter Bristol. He has seemingly come to embrace the spotlight since first being thrust into it in 2008, amid Palin’s bid for vice president, when he and Bristol were unwed teenagers expecting a child together.
Since then, he’s gone on to pose for Playgirl and appear with Kathy Griffin on her reality show. On Sunday, he walked the red carpet at the Teen Choice Awards with singer Brittani Senser, with whom he agreed to shoot a music video.
Asked whether he believed people would take Johnston’s run for office seriously, with TV cameras rolling, Jones said: “People questioned Jesus Christ, so I definitely don’t care about these mere mortals questioning Levi Johnston.
“People can question whatever they want. I mean, he’s going to keep on doing his thing,” he said. “He was going to do this, even if this wasn’t a reality show.”
These two fools will forever linked, good job Levi
Did this guy seriously just compare people “questioning Jesus Christ” to everyone doubting Levi Johnston, a teenager (is this kid even eligible to run for a public office???) running for a valid political position? I mean really, he’s serious with that? He’s just as delusional as the kid he’s representing.
“Asked whether he believed people would take Johnston’s run for office seriously, with TV cameras rolling, Jones said: “People questioned Jesus Christ, so I definitely don’t care about these mere mortals questioning Levi Johnston.”
The answer of whether the people of Wassila should be taken seriously, can be answered by the knowledge that the entire state of Alaska actually took Queen ‘bagger Sarah seriously. What a joke! LOL-ROFLMAO
Oh, Lord, this world is broken
Haha…you go girl. Just what Alaska needs to take the title of Most Dumbass State away from Arizona next year.
Too stupid for science? Try religion!!!
Good idea. Keep politics in the family and encourage Sarah to stay home. They can keep an eye on Russia for us.
He’d still be sitting in Wasilla with his thumb up his a@@ if it weren’t for Palin. Sick of hearing about all of those idiots. And the reality (not) shows. It’s about time that fad goes away.
Forget mayor dude, run for President. You are as qualified as Simple Sarah.
You are absolutely right yol. This world is broken. people need to wake up.
As far as Levi is concerned, he is an adult and needs to be more responsible then he is. I certainly hope that with all the work this guy seems to have that he is paying his child support. I do not like Sarah nor have I agreed with any of her political views. At one time I did defend Levi, for being a kid and he was used.
But, now it is time for him to grow up, take responsibility and make adult choices. I have come to see that this guy loves the spotlight and if my memory serves me correctly Palin threw him into it for her own selfish reasons. She used her daughter and Levi to defend her stand on pro-life. I have no problem with pro-
life, I do however have a problem with someone prancing their un-
wed children on the stage for their own political gain then bitching when it backfires on them. THIS is what Palin has done. We do reap what we so Sarah.
He’s as smart as she is [which is to say that neither of them knows much of anything], so he might as well run for mayor, or governor, or president. What the heck. He can start calling Obama a socialist to gain street creds with the idiots.
Obama is taking us in a socialist direction. Dumb @ss!!!
this kid is so dumb he didnt know how to use a condon—knocked up some bimbo girlfriend. mayor—-???? only in the great usa
Is everyone in AK ret**ded?
Perfect typical American politician wanna be who does not know his @@hole from a hole in the ground. And people wonder how our economy and everything else is OUT TO LUNCH in these great USAs.
I am getting to a point wondering why even vote any more.(But I will)
RETARDED
This is great! I’d vote for Levi…he’s probably smarter than Sarah, not by much, but he was smart enough to get her daughter pregnant! They’ll be linked together 4EVER!!! LOL (feel bad for Bristol & that adorable baby….& the people of Alaska!)
Looks like the shoe’s on the other foot.