Wyclef Jean's candidacy for the Presidency of Haiti came up at last night's pre-season meeting of the Curling Club and Literary Society.Egbert "Eggy" Sousé (pronounced Soo-SAY) said that if Jean wanted to the Exalted High Potentate, he (Sousé) couldn't see why not, considering that there had been precedents [presidents? ed.] in other countries, including the good ole U.S. of A.
Eggy pointed to the Philippines, where movie star Joseph "Erap" Estrada was elected and lasted a couple of years before being impeached for corruption.
In the Indian state of Tamil Nadu former Bollywood star "iron lady super wonder woman Jayalalithaa Jayaram" served as Chief Minister for a while, and still leads the official opposition. Closer to home we have Ahhnold in California, which also produced Pat Brown...and of course Ronnie Regan.
So if the Haitians want to elect a hiphop "artist" who speaks English rather than the local Créole, and may not have spent enough time in the country to qualify for the office, why not?
Agent 3, being a legal beagle, liked the appeal to precedent, but pointed out some interesting facts about M. Jean's background. One of his (Jean's) dubious qualifications for the job is that he was (until two days ago) founder and director of a charity which has been raising money to help the poor people of Haiti dispossessed by the big quake.
- Amount of money raised so far = $9,000,000
- Amount spent (subject to audit) = $1,500,000 (includes fees paid to M. Jean)
- Balance being held somewhere = $7,500,000
- Amount allegedly owing by M. Jean to the IRS for back taxes = $2,100,000
- Who's in charge of the money now? = not known
Stay tuned for further developments as Haiti gets set to vote!
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