I have a truly amazing ability to stumble into goofiness.  It’s a gift really.  In 2000 a friend of mine sent me a poll to see which presidential candidate I most agreed with.  Several of the questions I remember to be sort generic ‘faith based’ things.  Anyway, about third or fourth down on the list of results for me was the Natural Law party’s candidate.  Not sure how that popped up…anyway, I was intringued and visited the website.  It was a kooky, new age thing and for a laugh I signed up on the mailing list for more information.

A few months later I recieved a call from the party’s headquarters, I figured they were about to ask me to vote, but no, I was to be called to a higher duty.  The person on the other end of the line explained that in order to get on the ballot in Alabama they would had to have a candidate for elector…the folks who are actually elected to be part in the electoral college that makes the actual vote for president.  Apparently two people in the state of Alabama had actually visited their website and signed up to recieve information, one of which was me.  In the spirit of democracy I agreed to be their candidate for elector and was FedExed the forms, signed them and sent them back.  Possibly the only electoral college forms to have been mailed from Iuka, MS.  Thankfully, I don’t remember my name showing up on the ballot and, as hard of a choice as it was I didn’t vote for myself.  (I think that was the year I made all my uncertain votes for the best nickname, I believe ‘Rodeo Clown’ was running for Lt. Governor…but I digress.)

I had not thought about that event for quite a while until I googled my name…to my horror the only hit that came up was some sort of political graveyard name, listing all candidates from past elections.  There I was, Charles Scott Sealy, Natural Law party electoral candidate for the presidential election of 2000.

I shared that with a friend in Scotland who told me there’s a Natural Law Party in the UK as well, apparently known for sitting crosslegged and pretending to ride through the sky or something.  That was never mentioned in the information packet I received.  Anyway, my political career has been over for 7 years now, but I continue to stumble into goofiness.