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Chael Sonnen quits his unwinnable Oregon state senate election race
By Zach Arnold | June 16, 2010
He was running for election in the deepest blue part of Oregon in the Portland area and stood no chance to win. Then he started going crazy on BS’ng everyone and cutting promos to hype an Anderson Silva fight. Suddenly, he had to face heat when major news and political outlets started covering his remarks. After one round of Huffington Post coverage in conjunction with local papers, Sonnen started denying that he had a Twitter account and that it wasn’t him making those remarks online.
A couple of days ago, round two started on Huffington Post and suddenly acting like an ass to hype up a fight wasn’t going over so well with people interested in politics. With little chance to win his political election in the first place, his chances became 0% after his media routines. He’s now quietly abandoned the race and quit, stating that a legal issue from 2006 dealing with a real estate case is his reason for getting out.
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Knocked out of the election race and soon to be knocked out by Anderson Silva. Gotta love it!
It was always a publicity stunt. The guy is an attention whore, and when he got more attention for the Silva fight he didn’t need to slum it on the local election circuit.
Maybe he should move to North Carolina and run against Bob Etheridge.
(In case you’re not up on the news and didn’t realize how brilliantly funny that remark is, see here: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/2010/06/14/2010-06-14_north_carolina_congressman_bob_etheridge_gets_physical_with_reporter.html)
Smart move the last thing he needs before the biggest fight of his life is to be involved in political bs. Now he can concentrate on Silva and not worry about whatever crap sites want to go at him because of his politics.
The political price is only the down payment on those remarks. The full cost will be extracted from him in the cage.