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Minneapolis Mayoral Candidate Promises To Not Visit Strip Clubs In Wacky Video

By Chuck Sudo in News on Sep 13, 2013 9:10PM

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Thirty-seven candidates are vying to replace R.T. Ryback as mayor of Minneapolis but one has what is easily the most arresting campaign commercial.

Jeff Wagner, who lists himself as a member of the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party, emerges from a lake in a pair of compression shorts to declare he won’t sell out to developers or “the political angle” if elected, is “cool” with the $100,000 salary that comes with being elected to the office and will be so committed to the job he’ll stop going to strip clubs if he wins the Nov. 5 election.

“Wake the fuck up, people!” Wagner exclaims in the ad. Then he receives a refill of coffee from a woman on the shore and walks back into the lake.

We know Wagner has the balls for mayor—the ad leaves little to the imagination.