One of the first things you learn in candidate training schools is to come clean about skeletons in your closet and other unseemly events from your past early on in a campaign. If you don't, chances are they will be exposed by your opponents or the media later on and ruin you. (Exhibit A: Mike Huffington's failed campaign for the Senate in 1994, where days before the vote it was discovered he had employed an illegal alien as a nanny.)
But this, found on the website of Paul Rexe, a candidate for the mayor's job in my hometown of Peterborough, Ontario, is taking the "coming clean" principle to a whole new level. It's unlike anything I've ever seen before. Rexe is a nice man that I knew when I was in high school, and I wish him the best -- but one can't help but think these disclosures would have a tremendously damaging effect on his candidacy.
If anyone knows of any other online examples on candidates' websites that would trump this one, I'd be curious to see it.
# posted by Adam Daifallah : 5:11 PM
