Willie Wilson believes he's running for president. Why doesn't anyone else?

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Willie Wilson was wearing a suit with an American flag pin on the lapel. He stood in front of a pair of local reporters in a downtown hotel in Columbia, South Carolina, waiting to hear the results of the February 27 Democratic presidential primary. The room was nearly empty, but a few supporters and one Black Lives Matter activist milled about, chatting with each other and with the candidate.

Yes, really, the candidate for president of these United States, the 67-year-old businessman whom Chicagoans may or may not remember for unsuccessfully challenging Mayor Rahm Emanuel last year, getting 10 percent of the vote.

Wilson knows he won't be the next president, but he doesn't care. He was on the South Carolina Democratic ballot, and when asked whether he'd be on the Illinois ballot too he said: "You better believe it."

Whether voters here will recognize his name is another question. Whether they'll vote for him, still another. He isn't deluded into thinking he can get Chicagoans to take him seriously, but that doesn't mean he won't try.

http://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/willie-wilson-2016-presidential-campaign-politics/Content?oid=21285291

[HERVEPA]

1. Well he was a great (base)runner and an all-around good guy.