New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg narrowly won reelection after spending over $100 million dollars on the race. But the most successful write-in candidate didn't spend a dime; he doesn't even exist.Fictional billionaire Mr. Burns of "The Simpsons" got 27 out of 299 write-in votes.
Burns wasn't the only fictional character to get votes in the race. Mad Magazine icon Alfred E. Newman, Fantastic Four arch-villain Victor Von Doom, Mickey Mouse, and Sleeping Beauty also received write-in votes.Burns did have some help. Shepard Fairey-style posters popped up around the city before the election declaring, "No Third Term, Vote For Burns." And there's a Burns For Mayor website, complete with proposals for a Williamsburg Nuclear Power Plant and selling Staten Island. Here he is pitching himself to Marge Simpson over Reverend Billy: watch
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