Political Endorsement Queens 19th

Lord Dan Halloran (R, I, C, L coss party)  for City Council, 19th Queens NY

Halloran ( known to the greater heathen community as Lord Dan) is the type of quasi -libertarian GOP  pol I am comfortable with. He is in tough race and has impressed me with his political street smarts, in particular how he has avoided turning the campaign into some kind of referendum on his religion, Theodism.

Here's the NYT City Room Blog on the campaign,  not a big story to them, links for those who want to follow the whole story.

For me to pretend that I am endorsing Lord Dan for any reason other than his religion (which I do not adhere to, but share certain values with) would be hypocritical.  He might be a doosh but he's our doosh.

We need winners. And Lord Dan is if nothing else, a winner.

What is interesting to me is how the whole religion thing has played out in the media. Which is practically not at all. The only aspect of his religion which the media find controversial is the fact that some heathen groups,with  none of which Lord Dan is associated with in any way, espouse a racially exclusionist policy.

Polytheism, animal sacrifice, and sacral kingship in cosmopolitan New York, are non-issues. A mere whiff of racism  is political poison.