David Crawford was running in the Republican primary for the Southwest ward of Winston-Salem.  I say he was because he withdrew from the primary yesterday after the Winston-Salem Journal discovered that the address he gave the Forsyth County Board of Elections was his former business address, so he can’t meet the residency requirement.  From the story:

He acknowledged
yesterday that he has no permanent address and that he was not aware of
the rules that require a candidate for office to live in the ward that
he intends to represent.

"Even though I’m
living in Winston, on the streets basically, I have to have a physical
address," he said. "I don’t really have that."

Great googly-moogly!  Can you imagine what would have happened if this guy had won the primary?  The Southwest ward Republicans would have been represented by a guy who is either so dumb that he doesn’t even know the most basic rules that apply to his new "job" or he’s such a bad liar that he can’t come up with something better than (I’m paraphrasing here), "Well I live there, but like, I don’t really have a street address so I kind of just, you know, live on the street."

Later in the story we learn that "Crawford, a
self-employed computer technician and a senior vice president with
Sigla Furniture Co. in High Point, had been making his first run for
public office."

Now, this is a little confusing because according to the article Mr. Crawford is both self-employed and a senior VP at a local company.  Is the computer thing a side job or is he the former senior VP?  If he is indeed the senior VP  then obviously his statement that he’s living on the street is even more far-fetched.  Not many senior VPs are living on the streets, know what I mean?

So yes it was close.  We almost had another politician who was either a bad liar or incredibly dumb.  We’ve already got plenty of those around.