Euthanasia advocate and recently released suicide assistant Jack "the Dripper" Kevorkian is reported to have collected enough signatures to place his name on the ballot for the Ninth Congressional District in his home state of Michigan.
Kevorkian collected over 3,200 signatures supposedly supporting his candidacy. Opponents claim that signatures on assisted suicide applications are not valid for state elections. In a recent debate Kevorkian cited similarity between his efforts to help people die and the work of the Federal government:
" I couldn't begin to boast of the casualty numbers of the heavy hitters like George Bush or the Rubber Stamp US Congress but I have put up some pretty significant mortalities statistics for one little Doc and a Gravity drip machine. I'm the Mistercoffee of the self-annihilation crew. given the resources of Washington, I know I can match the death count of some of our nation's greatest killers. Michigan, just give me the chance!"
