Louisville Mayor Candidate has "Great Idea" for Economic Development...

Readers, as you may have noticed, I've been sporadically reporting on the massive Louisville mayoral primary race. I can't really help it--you see, when our (quasi)beloved "mayor for life" Jerry Abramson (who had a strangle hold on the office for nearly 20 years) announced that he was not seeking reelection, we Louisvillians kind of lost our shit: now that the perennial shoe-in has bowed out, everybody wants a crack at this thing called "mayor" and there seems to be no campaign limit on crazy this election period.

I reported earlier on one special candidate who led the pack in that regard early on, but another contender for the coo-coo crown seems worth mentioning. Burrel Farnsley, son of Louisville's former mayor (1948-53), the late Charles Farnsley, has barely been a bleep on the radar here at MM: he avoids the press, doesn't seem to give interviews, and doesn't even have a website. He is pictured here at a mayoral candidate panel, um, asleep (maybe he's taking a cue from reigning king of Ky good ole' boys Jim Bunning--catching some zz's on the job didn't particularly seem to hurt his career...). Farnsley is pretty much just ballot filler at this point (along with a field of other less-than-hopefuls, ne'er do wells and half-cocked "community activists")--when we go to the polls for tomorrow's primary the only people who are likely to circle this guy's name are the disgruntled, the dangerously misinformed or that strange breed of jack-off who takes the time and trouble to cast their vote as a sort of irresponsible civic joke.

Case in point? Yesterday's Courier-Journal reported that Farnsley has halted his campaign effort. He hasn't withdrawn from the race, per se, but after participating in a few forums (like the one pictured above) he has "stopped actively campaigning." The poor C-J seems to be genuinely trying to get this guy some press, but Farnsley apparently screens his phone calls very carefully and lives pretty much off-grid (no Twitter account? Barbaric!). But the most enlightening part of the article was the little bit of information he apparently did provide regarding his idea for Louisville's economic growth:

"He said...that his major economic-development idea is to allow bars to remain open 24 hours a day, seven days a week." (!)

Well, finally! A candidate that understands that bar closing times need to extend beyond 4 AM to really contribute to the community! Pappa would be so proud.