Congressman Clay Aiken? The North Carolina-based pop singer, amateur and American Idol runner-up appear his antagonism for Congress in a video acquaint to his campaign web site Tuesday.
Clay Aiken: Through the Years
"I'm not a baby-kisser - I don't anytime wish to be one - but I do wish to advice accompany back, at atomic to my bend of North Carolina, the abstraction that anyone can go to Washington to represent all the humans whether they voted for you or not," Aiken said in the video. "And maybe we can play a baby allotment in igniting that change beyond the blow of our country."
Aiken answers critics of his abilities by account his bankrupt accomplishments and aboriginal career as a appropriate apprenticeship abecedary for accouchement with autism. The Democrat acclaimed it was his 2006 arrangement by President George W. Bush to serve on an apprenticeship agency apropos accouchement with autism that kickstarted his abstraction to access politics. "That was if I aboriginal accomplished that our problems will not be apparent by one affair or the other," he said. "More families are disturbing now than at any time in our history and actuality in North Carolina, we've suffered added than our allotment of pain."
In the video, the accompanist chastises Renee Ellmers, the district's accepted Republican congresswoman, for voting for aggressive cuts and the 2013 government shutdown. Ellmers' district, which includes the basic city-limits of Raleigh, was controlled by Democrats until 2010, but voted for Mitt Romney in the 2012 presidential election.
Aiken attempt the video in the home of a ancestors acquaintance who cloistral the accompanist and his mother from his calumniating ancestor if Aiken was a child. "My ancestor could be a agitated man who would get bashed and angry," accepted the singer. "He absitively that mom was the acumen for the affliction in his life. I saw later, if I was older, the pictures of aching face and begrimed eyes in badge photographs."
Aiken still has to win the Democratic primary in May to run adjoin the champ of the Republican primary, but the chase has already gotten personal. Last week, Ellmers said in a radio interview, "As we know, he doesn't consistently book that well. He was runner-up." In an e-mail to Raleigh bi-weekly News & Observer on Wednesday, a agent for Ellmers alleged the aboveboard gay Aiken "a aerialist whose political angle added carefully resemble those of San Francisco than Sanford."
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