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Date Posted: 03:31:02 12/17/03 Wed
Author: the Rock Hard-scout
Subject: Re: why Sir Thomas is the BOSS as FUCKIN SHIT!!
In reply to: the rock hard man 's message, "Re: why RYAN PETRILLO is the BEST" on 02:47:57 12/17/03 Wed

ok well the movie is almost done transfering. It is turning out real good. I think i found every news thing that has had my name on it. On well as I step down from my high horse I will put down this story from the AP with ME in IT.

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All the world's a soundstage for young mayoral candidate-director
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By GEOFF MULVIHILL
Associated Press Writer

October 17, 2003, 10:27 AM EDT

HADDON HEIGHTS, N.J. -- The mayoral candidate is constantly answering his cell phone, telling his friends and supporters where they need to be as he manages their complex schedules.

But they're not talking about the campaign. They're talking about "Here's to Yesterday," one of the movies they're making.

Even though his moviemaking side often takes priority over politicking, Tommy Avallone, a 20-year-old who is also a community college student and a part-time video store clerk insists that he's a serious candidate for mayor of this Philadelphia suburb of 7,500.

In Avallone's bedroom in his parents' house, the walls are lined with shelves of movies on video and posters for films such as "Mallrats" and bands such as Tenacious D.

There are no old political posters in the room.

But then, Avallone reached voting age just days before the 2000 presidential election, the only government election he's voted in.

His previous campaign experience came at Haddon Heights High School where he helped a friend win one year and was elected student body president himself the next.

He has already done something new for Haddon Heights politics: He's gotten the race on CNN and some Philadelphia radio stations. And he's taken the campaign to the high school.

"I know that he's been able to register a number of people" to vote, said Democratic mayoral candidate William Kenney who said this is the first time in the eight elections in which he has run that he has received calls from reporters. "Mostly good comes out of this."

At his campaign events, Avallone, who has constantly evolving facial hair _ recently, a full beard with a few notches cut out of it _ appears flanked by friends who dress like Secret Service agents, but with messier hair and piercings.

"We're at his beck and call," said Mike Hadfield, who drove the convertible Avallone rode in during their town's Fourth of July parade.

Avallone sees his run for office as a chance to get his peers engaged in their town.

And it's a chance for some cinema verite for the aspiring director. Avallone and his friends are making a documentary about his run for mayor.

"Why make a documentary about losing?" he asked. Avallone said he hadn't given much thought to local issues or the competition before he announced his run as an independent in June.

"I don't have a problem with anyone" in power now, he said. "I just wanted to run."

Kenney, the lawyer and Democrat who lost narrowly to Republican Susan Griffith in 2001, is talking about sharing some government services with some of the small towns it borders.

Griffith, an insurance agent and Republican who was elected to an unexpired term in 2001, reels off a list of issues she's working on, including using grants to further revitalize downtown, and repairing soccer fields.

Avallone would like to increase pay for Haddon Heights teachers, trim taxes and reform the enforcement of parking laws. The biggest priority for him, though, is creating stuff for the town's kids to do at the hours of the night when police officers shoo them from the streets downtown.

Specifically, he would like to see a live music venue that could entertain his demographic, keep them off the streets and perhaps raise some money for the borough.

He said he's still developing other positions.

"I do hope he's taking this as a serious matter," Griffith said of her young competition.

Several voters and observers of the race said they hoped the same thing.

"I told him, 'I admire you for your guts,"' said Connie Cristino, who lives in another town but is paying close attention to the race because her store, Chocolate Heaven, is in town.

Avallone has shown guts in making elaborate, if scatological, movies. He convinced a local theater to screen "Wasted Apples" in 2001 and "Small Kid; Tank Top" last year and peddled them on video.

"If I can run a town," he said. "I can run my own production company."

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