July 26, 2003

ScrappleFace, eat your heart out!

The call was placed to the San Bruno home of William Pratt, one of California's new candidates for governor.

His mother answered.

"Could you hold on a minute?" the 18-year-old Pratt asked a reporter as he covered the receiver to shoo away his mother. "Mom, stop waving that mail in my face. I'm trying to do an interview."

The floodgates of the democratic republic opened wide Friday as Pratt and dozens of other Californians headed to their county registrars to start the process of getting on the Oct. 7 ballot to be the next governor.

They're giddy at the relative ease of it all -- especially Pratt, who lost six elections for student congress at St. Francis High School in Mountain View.

-- actual news out of San Franscisco

(thanks to PatheticEarthlings)

Posted by Greg Ransom