Post by Bret Walker on Jun 27, 2003 14:32:18 GMT -5
Senate candidate's nude photos cause debate
Thursday, June 26, 2003 Posted: 1:07 PM EDT (1707 GMT)
Source: CNN.com
NEWTON, New Jersey (AP) -- County Democratic officials want a state Senate candidate to quit the race over a nude photo contest he entered, but Jim Morrison says he's in to stay.
"If people want to know about it, they should know I won the contest," the 32-year-old attorney said.
Sussex County Democratic Party Chairman Charles Cart said Morrison does not reflect northwestern New Jersey's conservative values, and the party already has a hard enough time competing in an area where Republicans outnumber Democrats 3-to-1.
"It's not like you do it when you're an adolescent and you feel like you did something wrong. It's like, 'Hey, I won that contest and it's cool,"' Cart said.
Morrison, a partner in his parents' law firm, has gotten national attention in the past. He was a runner-up on ABC-TV's reality show "The Mole" in early 2001. That same year, Morrison was named one of People magazine's "50 Most Eligible Bachelors."
He posed for nude pictures while he was a law school student, and in 1996 twice entered a photo contest in New York City that featured nudity.
He called the photo contest about "as bad as a wet T-shirt contest."
"I don't shy away or back away from who I am, because I think that's the kind of person voters want," Morrison said.
*snip*
I used to live in Northwest New Jersey, and that's about as wild as I ever saw party politics get up there. It's serious farm country. I wish Jim Morrison would run in our district. And hey, who wouldn't wan't Jim Morrison as their state senator? ;D
Thursday, June 26, 2003 Posted: 1:07 PM EDT (1707 GMT)
Source: CNN.com
NEWTON, New Jersey (AP) -- County Democratic officials want a state Senate candidate to quit the race over a nude photo contest he entered, but Jim Morrison says he's in to stay.
"If people want to know about it, they should know I won the contest," the 32-year-old attorney said.
Sussex County Democratic Party Chairman Charles Cart said Morrison does not reflect northwestern New Jersey's conservative values, and the party already has a hard enough time competing in an area where Republicans outnumber Democrats 3-to-1.
"It's not like you do it when you're an adolescent and you feel like you did something wrong. It's like, 'Hey, I won that contest and it's cool,"' Cart said.
Morrison, a partner in his parents' law firm, has gotten national attention in the past. He was a runner-up on ABC-TV's reality show "The Mole" in early 2001. That same year, Morrison was named one of People magazine's "50 Most Eligible Bachelors."
He posed for nude pictures while he was a law school student, and in 1996 twice entered a photo contest in New York City that featured nudity.
He called the photo contest about "as bad as a wet T-shirt contest."
"I don't shy away or back away from who I am, because I think that's the kind of person voters want," Morrison said.
*snip*
I used to live in Northwest New Jersey, and that's about as wild as I ever saw party politics get up there. It's serious farm country. I wish Jim Morrison would run in our district. And hey, who wouldn't wan't Jim Morrison as their state senator? ;D
