Russell Twyce

“Do you swear to faithfully uphold the office to which you were elected?”

“I do.” Eric had lied. Then he hopped the next plane to a tropical destination. Campaigning is hard work and Eric wanted to pick up a girl to help him unwind from the strain.

Well to be honest, it wasn’t all that much effort for him. The corrupt political party he served for simply spent more money on advertising than the next runner up contender had spent. But a good politician can lie to himself as well as he can feed BS to the media and to the public and so here Eric was on his vacation to pick up girls.

The newly elected and sworn in political candidate took a sip of his beer and he recalled an interview he gave shortly after the victory of corruption over another flavor of political corruption.

“Why did you want to get into politics?” The reporter had asked. Eric has doled out the time-honored spiel about wanting to serve his country and the people in it. All Crap!

Young Eric had decided to go into politics when the Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinski scandal was on the front pages. Politics had seemed like the best way he could think to pick up girls.