Jim Morrison is hardly the conventional political candidate. The 32-year-old Democrat is running for the New Jersey State Senate in a rural conservative district against a long-time Republican incumbent. Morrison is gay, liberal and a political novice. He’s given to such frank assertions of his thoughts that one wonders if anything is ever held back. And, oh yes, there’s the “pretty penis contest” he entered—not once, but twice—while in law school in New York.
HE WON, BY the way. Both times. And his refreshing candor about it and his no-spin-zone stand on local issues seems to be appealing to a variety of people in his district, if the phone calls and e-mails of support are any indication. His admirers, however, do not include his own county Democratic chairman, Charles Cart. When Cart found out about the penis contest, he approached Morrison’s campaign manager (who is also his father) and urged him to convince his son to drop out, saying, according to local reporters, “The story could be embarrassing for you, for your son and the party.”
Turns out Morrison’s family already knew about the contest—and neither they nor he were embarrassed in the slightest. And as for the Dems? Cart and the Democratic Party hadn’t even bothered to put up a candidate for the seat until Morrison won enough write-in votes in the June primary to win a spot on the November ballot against Republican incumbent, Sen. Robert Littell. “We knew he was gay. That didn’t bother us,” Cart told the Philadelphia Inquirer. “But this contest that he entered more than once, and was proud of, that bothered us.”
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