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Ärende: Something in the tea?
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Tea Party Candidate "believed God would drop a 1,000-mile high
pyramid... on Greenland"

Bruce Wilson
Tue May 25, 2010 at 03:38:45 PM EST

Over the past week I've been writing on some rather unusual Republican
Party candidates in the 2010 election, for example the much discussed
Kentucky GOP senate candidate Rand Paul who, as it happens, gave an
April 2009 keynote address at a rally for the theocratic Constitution
Party that wants to impose Biblical law on America and whose ideological
guiding light R. J. Rushdoony wanted to impose stoning as a method of
execution and thought the Sun revolves around the Earth.

Then came Arthur Robinson, running for Congress in Oregon's 4th
District, who, among other things, has proposed dumping oil and nuclear
waste at sea and claimed ocean life was "starved" for crude oil. With
Robinson I thought the eccentricity meter had red-lined. But I was
wrong.

Now comes Tim D'Annunzio, a Tea-Partying  congressional candidate vying
to be the GOP's nominee in North Carolina's 8th District. The Republican
Party is so impressed with D'Annunzio's credentials that they're
preemptively releasing dirt about him. Here's some of it:

In Hoke County divorce records, his wife said in 1995 that D'Annunzio
had claimed to be the Messiah, had traveled to New Jersey to raise his
stepfather from the dead, believed God would drop a 1,000-mile high
pyramid as the New Jerusalem on Greenland and found the Ark of the
Covenant in Arizona. A doctor's evaluation the following month said
D'Annunzio used marijuana almost daily, had been living with another
woman for several months, had once been in drug treatment for heroin
dependence and was jailed a couple times as a teenager.
The doctor concluded that his religious beliefs were not delusional. A
judge wrote in a child support ruling a few years later that D'Annunzio
was a self-described "religious zealot" who believed the government was
the "Antichrist."

I think D'Annunzio may do quite well - in the GOP runoff at least.

http://tinyurl.com/25vnoe5

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