Gawd...this section is busy today.
File under: you just can't make this shit up.
Meet Jacob Rush, 35 years old, lawyer, and candidate for the GOP primaries for Florida-03:
"Conservative Straight Shooter"
This is also Jacob Rush:
Yes, that's him on the left AND on the right.
And here is his bio at his campaign website:
About - Jake Rush for CongressNow, read:
The bizarre double life of conservative congressional hopeful Jake Rush - SaintPetersBlogRush – as “Chazz Darling,” “Staas van der Winst” and a host of other roles – was a long-time member of the Mind’s Eye Society, otherwise known as “Camarilla.”
Mind’s Eye, or MES, is a nationwide community of gothic-punk role-players who come together to take on personas of vampires and other supernatural beings (known as Kindred), dealing with night-to-night struggles “against their own bestial natures, hunters, and each other.”
MES has a number of different sects, with names such as Vampire: The Requiem; Vampire: The Masquerade; Changeling: The Lost; Geist the Sin Eaters; New World of Darkness and Werewolf the Forsaken, among others.
Using various “domains” — through both table games and “live action”— Rush participated as dozens of “characters,” with names like Darling, van de Winst, Johan Gambrys, Zane Daily, The Kriesler, Archbishop Kettering and more.
MES, extremely trademarked and organized, is by no means a trivial enterprise. It is a highly regimented association of like-minded people, complete with its own rituals and performances.
The governing body not only has elected officers, a Board of Directors and someone called a “national storyteller,” but they conduct monthly meetings, hold trade shows, and present an annual international convention, which in 2014 is on April 9-13 in San Antonio, Texas....
Rush, as a member of the “Kindred of Gainesville,” is not some teenager playing Dungeons and Dragons in his mom’s basement. This is a game for adults, with adult themes...
...Listed under “other interests” on his bio page, Rush describes himself as a “sworn officer … fo’ real,” suggestive of his double life in the “occult” world and the “real” one, as a lawyer and Alachua County sheriff’s deputy.
By June 2013, the future GOP candidate — beginning to aspire to elected office — began to try to cleanse his past, starting with a frenzy of image deletions from the wiki, with some of the most outrageous ones deleted on March 7, 2014.
However, not everything was scrubbed.
Images that remained under the attorney’s name range between the utterly childish and truly unsettling — especially for someone wanting to be a serious “law and order” GOP congressional candidate who leans to the right of the Tea Party.
For example, images not erased — unlike one deleted photo uploaded in 2009 titled “Put on my Rape Face” — illustrate a disturbing spectrum, ranging from the silly and mild to unsettling portrayals of bizarre, ritualistic scenes of the occult, book burnings — even a succubus.
Among the photos still available on the wiki are:
Burning books
Aiming shotguns at dogs
Dressed as a vampire
Dressed as a demon
Satanic symbolism
Being chained and gagged
Bloody angel wings...
...Chazz Darling appears to be one of Rush’s favorite personas. As Darling, Rush published regularly in both the Camarilla Wiki Project, a wide range of message boards and sites connected with White Wolf Publishing, the company which created the first Vampire: The Masquerade role-playing game in 1991.
There are some unbelievable sexual quotes at the news article, very disturbing, that you can read at the link.
This is being reported all over the place:
Even by FL standards, Jake Rush campaign is 100 percent strange | Naked PoliticsMeet Jake Rush, Florida Congressional Candidate and Vampire | Vanity FairFlorida GOP Candidate Jacob Rush Takes Heat For Occult Fantasies - TIMEFlorida Man Runs for Congress, Embraces His Cosplay/Rape Fantasy PastMeet the Gothic-Punk Role-Player Running Against Ted Yoho, a Former Large-Animal Veterinarian - NationalJournal.comVampire Congressman! Coming Soon to Showtime! - Hit & Run : Reason.com--------------------------------------------------------------------------
You can read Mr. Rush's response here:
The campaign's a stage and Jake Rush says he's being attacked for merely acting | Naked PoliticsHe admits to being a gamer and for the company that has been "outed".
This part kind of stuck out:
“As a practicing Christian, I am deeply offended that the opposing campaign and their supporters would take a gaming and theatre hobby and mischaracterize it,”
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