‘Edgertonite’ candidate gets national attention

Another “awesome” Minneapolis ballot getting a bit of Lizard People–style attention is that of mayoral hopeful John Charles Wilson, who’s running as the “Edgertonite National Party” candidate. Boingboing, the country’s number-five blog, picks up on it today, noting that the story of Wilson’s party affiliation makes the ballot even more interesting. As MnIndy’s Andy Birkey wrote in January, the party is based on the Wilson-created Lauraist religion, which posits that Laura Ingalls Wilder is God and that the Lauraist homeland will occupy an area within a 240-mile radius of Minneapolis.

“A new nation, to be called Edgerton, with its capital at Minneapolis, should be created on the land from approximately Hibbing to Des Moines, and from Fargo to Madison,” Wilson’s campaign Web site said at the time.

As local Boingboing blogger Maggie Koerth-Baker says, “God, I love this town!”