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Saturday, January 4, 2014

Clay Aiken to Run For U.S. Congress?

Clay Aiken rose to fame as runner up to Reuben Studard about 10 plus years ago on America Idol. Now, he has a new plan, he is considering running for US Congress in the district of North Carolina - seriously.

According to report by Washington Blade, Clay Aiken is "actively" laying the ground work for a political run and has consulted with political operative Betsy Conti, who worked for former Vice President Al Gore and former North Carolina Governor Bev Perdue.

He is probably a long shot from winning as he will have to go through a lot of scrutiny from a heavily "bible Belt" Southern State of North Carolina. It is a known fact that Clay is openly gay and has spoken out about anti-bullying legislation. whether he decide to run or not is up to him but I personally doubt if he is ready for the kind of scrutiny that politics requires. Unlike a singing show - American Idol, he will have to really convince a lot of people to vote for him this time - albeit - campaigning and all.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Let's see how far this will go. I doubt if he will run.

Anonymous said...

Good luck.

Anonymous said...

Don't be surprised if he wins...anything is possible in the good old USA.