Article appeared on TheHill.com Wednesday, September 05, 2007

Contest calls for T-shirts of un-dead presidential hopefuls and dead presidents, too

Morbid it may be, boring it isn’t.

ZombiePresidents.com of North Hollywood, Calif., is holding a “Dead Men Running” contest, looking for the best photographs of Zombie President T-shirts at presidential campaign events.

The $15.95 shirts, available at www.WickedCoolStuff.com and www.ZombiePresidents.com, feature illustrations of late Presidents Lincoln, Reagan, Nixon and Kennedy rising from the grave.

Contestants are asked to send in pictures of themselves wearing a T-shirt at campaign events, standing next to candidates, or even a picture of the candidate him- or herself wearing a shirt. Prizes are gift certificates to pop-culture retailer WickedCoolStuff.com, created by Brett Dewey, writer for the old after-school show “Saved by the Bell” and recipient of fleeting Internet fame.

Rules require the candidate be a “major Democratic or Republican” contender, defined as one who has appeared in the most recent nationally televised debate. “Mike Gravel and Ron Paul count, but your crazy Uncle Lou doesn’t,” shirt designer Mark Tavares(sic) said.

“I would certainly prefer an undead Kennedy to a living Republican in 2008,” one Washington-based political strategist, Peter Loge, said, adding that he prefers most of the living Democratic candidates to their flesh-eating alternatives. “But if worse comes to worst, I’ll vote for the zombie,” Loge said.

For more information, visit www.ZombiePresidents.com/deadmenrunning.html .

 

Article appeared on TheHill.com Wednesday, September 05, 2007