America’s Top Heathen

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http://www.villagevoice.com/2011-11-30/news/america-s-top-heathen-dan-halloran-city-council/

Odin himself might have had a hard time predicting Dan Halloran’s strange career on New York’s City Council



n Tuesday, November 4, 2009, American political history was made, even though it was an off-year election, with few people running for high-profile offices.

A new political movement calling itself the Tea Party had put up its first crop of candidates. The upstart party helped deliver the first electoral defeat to the new American president, who had been inaugurated just months before with an 80 percent approval rating. By the end of the evening, the Tea Party had helped turn the governorships of two blue states red (Virginia and New Jersey).

What most political observers overlooked, however, was the most magical election of the night, featuring the most colorful Tea Party candidate in the nation, in the 19th City Council District in Queens.

That was where real history was made. Mayor Mike Bloomberg squeaking into a third term was inconsequential compared with Daniel Halloran, a Theodish heathen, becoming the first openly elected heathen in the natio

[opihimoimoi]

1. Us Pagans feel so left out...sniff

[deacon_sephiroth]

2. Damn... when I read the headline I thought it was a contest

Next on Discovery: America's Next Top Heathen.

I'd sign up...