Jello Biafra's 1979 campaign for Mayor of San Francisco (dangerousminds.net)

Cannot upvote this enough.

I'd always thought I'd read in Maximum Rock and Roll that they got rid of him for not using his real name.

We have our own UK version: Bez for Mayor [1]

If you don't know Bez, watch 24 Hour Party People

http://www.nme.com/news/happy-mondays/76089

Bicycles in the city, what a great idea.

Anyone would've been better than DiFi.

If you enjoy some of his ideas while campaigning for Mayor, you may like his series, What Would Jello Do[0]. He's covered Meg Whitman, [1] Internet Killswitch [2] and... Selfies [3]

[0] https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL636ABE10C3CCC992

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMVA9pd_NvM&index=1&list=PL6...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9uRsAtGWB0&index=3&list=PL6...

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iej9asP0uBA&index=46&list=PL...

His spoken word album "I Blow Minds For A Living" has a longish piece on his experiences here as well

Reminds me of Hunter S Thompson running for Sheriff of Aspen.

A wonderful account of San Francisco 1967-1982 that explains the cultural context in which Biafra came forward: http://www.sfgate.com/books/article/Season-of-the-Witch-by-D...

"Kissing hands and shaking babies."

Brilliant.