MANCHESTER, N.H. — Richard Rist is a business owner from Maryland, frustrated with how divided the nation has become. His solution: run for president. Because… why not?
On Thursday, Rist was part of what’s called the Lesser-Known Candidate Forum, held by Saint Anselm College in Manchester every four years, a tradition that dates back to 1972 in the first-in-the-nation primary state.
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Dressed conservatively in a navy sport coat and a floral tie, Rist made his way to the stage, where he found himself sandwiched between a man wearing a big black rubber boot on his head, and a candidate named Paperboy Love Prince whose outfit evoked a wish-granting genie.
A 2004 article said he owned a “home-based gallery”.
Do people in New Hampshire get friends and coworkers together do write-in political fantasy football stuff?
Like is “Richard Rist” an fictional in-joke or a in-joke real person who owns a pizzeria?
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The answer is no fun at all. It’s American civil religion. I should have known. Many of them (nearly all of them?) are actual candidates.
A 2004 article said he owned a “home-based gallery”.