Key West mayoral candidate takes call from God during debate
Source: Associated Press/Miami Herald
Updated 6:31 am CDT, Wednesday, July 25, 2018
KEY WEST, Fla. (AP) — A perennial candidate for mayor of Key West took a phone call from God during a recent debate.
"Hello? What? God?" Sloan Bashinsky said into his cellphone during Monday night's debate for city commission and mayoral candidates.
According to a report in the Miami Herald, Bashinsky then talked about cuts to nonprofit funding and told God he thinks city officials have lost their minds.
Bashinsky has a law degree from Vanderbilt University and used to be among Key West's homeless. He says God told him to seek office.
Read more: https://www.chron.com/news/us/article/Key-West-mayoral-candidate-takes-call-from-God-13103120.php
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There's a lawyer in DC in a similar situation.
The homeless man who went to Harvard Law with John Roberts
By Terrence McCoy July 13, 2015 [link:[email protected]|Email the author]
The judge settled his gaze on the homeless man accused of sleeping beside an office building in downtown Washington. ... It was a Saturday afternoon in early April at D.C. Superior Court, and Alfred Postell, a diagnosed schizophrenic, stood before Judge Thomas Motley. ... Postell’s hair was medium length and graying. His belly spilled over his pants. A tangled beard hung from his jowls.
“You have the right to remain silent,” a deputy clerk told Postell, according to a transcript of the arraignment. “Anything you say, other than to your attorney, can be used against you.” ... “I’m a lawyer,” Postell replied. ... Motley ignored the seemingly bizarre assertion, mulling over whether Postell, charged with unlawful entry, posed a flight risk.
“I have to return,” Postell protested, offering a convoluted explanation: “I passed the Bar at Catholic University, was admitted to Constitution Hall. I swore the Oath of Office as an attorney at Constitution Hall in 1979; graduated from Harvard Law School in 1979.” ... That got Motley’s attention. He’d also graduated from Harvard Law School in 1979. ... “Mr. Postell, so did I,” Motley said. “I remember you.”
This homeless man — who totes his belongings in white plastic bags, haunts the intersection of 17th and I streets NW and sometimes sleeps at a church — studied law alongside U.S. Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. and former Wisconsin senator Russ Feingold. All of them graduated from Harvard in 1979.
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Alfred Postell, who is a diagnosed schizophrenic, haunts the intersection of 17th and I streets in Northwest Washington. (Terrence McCoy/The Washington Post)
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Terrence McCoy covers poverty, inequality and social justice in urban and rural America. He is the recipient of numerous awards, including the 2016 George Polk Award for stories that showed how companies in an obscure industry made millions of dollars from exploitative deals with the poor and disabled. He has served in the Peace Corps in Cambodia. Follow https://twitter.com/terrence_mccoy
Previously at DU:
Judge Recognizes Homeless Defendant as Harvard Law Classmate
He loves to fuck around that way. 
