| Christy Mihos's decision to run as an independent was all over the news yesterday, as anonymous sources gleefully leaked the story to anyone who would listen in advance of today's official announcement.
But the Herald's report that Mihos advisors are deserting his campaign in droves tells us a lot about what a Mihos campaign is likely to look like - and how long it is likely to last. From the Herald article:
Christy Mihos enters the governor’s race as an independent today on the heels of a mutiny within his campaign team. Five members of Mihos’ campaign team quit this week - saying Mihos was impossible to manage - and are now throwing their support behind Lt. Gov. Kerry Healey and encouraging others to do the same.
Just weeks after campaign manager Holly Robichaud left Mihos' campaign, deputy campaign manager Ron Vining and four others quit Tuesday, calling Mihos an "unmanageable candidate."
Coming on the heels of Mihos's bizarre off-color jokes at the Mass. Biotech forum yesterday, I continue to think that it's only a matter of time before Mihos's loose-cannon personality fatally undermines any serious chance he has of becoming Governor. From today's Globe article:
After giving his wife, Andrea, a peck on the check, he strode to the microphone and promised to be brief by saying, "My wife says I'm awful fast, so I'll try to stick to that." The joke prompted groans from many of the 400 people in attendance.
Moments later, Mihos noted that he had been married for 31 years; he joked that he married his wife when she was 5 years old. "That will get me points tonight, too," he said to awkward silence.
After the event, Mihos was asked by reporters about his wife having told him in the past that she didn't want him to run for public office. "She made a deal," Mihos said. "She said, 'You can do whatever you want as long as I can have a new wardrobe.' It's going to cost me more to fund her wardrobe than it is to fund my campaign, I think."
You know what? Most voters don't want to hear jokes about how quickly a candidate ejaculates while having relations with his wife. Nor are they interested in a candidate who thinks it's funny to say that he married his wife when she was 5 years old - that's a little close to a topic that's still pretty raw around here.
I said long ago that Christy Mihos was a "loose cannon" who wasn't "really ready for prime time." I think that's becoming painfully obvious, and it will become ever moreso until his campaign inevitably becomes little more than a footnote. Mihos's money can buy a lot of lipstick, but ... well, you know.
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