There’s A New “Kanye 4 Mayor” Campaign

The newly married Kanye West may add another notch to his incredible career belt, Mayor of Chicago. Chicago based writer and artist Ben Shepard  has launched the website kanye4mayor.org with the goal in mind to rally enough support to actually get 'Ye to run for office.

Shepard feels that current mayor, Rham Emanuel, doesn't have the best interests of Chicagoans in mind and has started the "Kanye 4 Mayor" campaign. Shepard explains the  reasoning for his campaign as such, "because Chicago under the West administration would be a happier one for most humans who live in it (this is conventionally the 'goal of politics') and because the arguments would be realer, more interesting, and more political than they are now."

In an open letter to Kanye, Shepard writes:

Here’s an idea for how to write some history. 

Right now your home city is ruled over by a Mayor whose allegiances are not with the majority of Chicagoans.  

I want to invite you to run for mayor of Chicago in 2015 and make it the best city in the world. Doing this would require fixing some big problems. 

There are four main ones: the schools are awful, the public transportation system is subpar, it isn’t a democracy, there are too many shootings.

Shepard then goes on to detail each specific problem and how Kanye could fix them as Mayor of the city. The website is littered with ideas (some far-fetched, some actually highly intelligent) and quotes from Kanye songs and interviews he has done in the past. While it's unknown if 'Ye has ever considered a political career, the outspoken MC certainly has one supporter in Ben Shepard.

[Kanye4Mayor.org]