If I had a twin...

"I'd have him go to work/school for me and take notes while I sleep in" this is every kid's fantasy that involves either identical twins or clones, which are the artifical version.

Well, finally, a politican tried this stunt (and got caught). Julian Castro (D?), who is running for Mayor of San Antonio, and his twin brother Joaquin, who is not, got caught doing the old switcheroo on unsuspecting river walk city council parade watchers. [Julian claims he was planning to go WITH his brother but had to cancel last minute and his brother chose to still go; Julian had a meeting on the other side of the city. The brothers blame the mix up on the parade/float announcer.]

To make up for this embaressing turn of events, the brothers Castro had a great gag press conversence to clear up the mess: T-shirts so people know who is who. [ActiveX Required]



As funny as this sounds, maybe this was a good idea. I mean if nobody knows you are running for mayor, what better way to get free publicity than to stage a twin stunt? Of course, it shows a lack of character and willingness to cheat/lie/cut corners that most voters find distasteful. But to quote Madonna (whom I am sure stole it from someone else): "There's no such thing as bad publicity"

I am not saying that Castro is a marginal candidate, in fact in the above video clip, the city councilman claims his rivals are using this incident to distract from the real issues and try to close the huge lead Castro has. And SurveyUSA backs him up on that: Julian is leading 43-28-22-7 (3-way race with seven percent undecided and a 4.8 MoE 443 likely voters called 4/11-13). Now if only the Coors light twins would run...then everyone would follow the story.