Hunter Claus at Decider Chicago rates the political floats in Sunday’s Gay Pride parade. Best float goes to Sheriff Tom Dart:
While some of these straight-laced people looked out of place between floats of gyrating muscles and Lady Gaga remixes, others did their research and blended right in. Dart’s float was so dead-on that it put the other public officials to shame. Dart incorporated male dancers wearing sleeveless orange prison jumpsuits, which prompted someone nearby to ask, “Do you think those are real prison uniforms, and if so, are those real inmates?”
Lisa Madigan brought “an enormous float;” Roland Burris ”sat atop the back of a convertible as if he were some astronaut who just returned from the moon.”
The losers? Todd Stroger didn’t show up, but was represented by “a rag-tag posse holding up a banner with his mug on it.” Board Pres candidate Dorothy Brown “put as much effort into bedazzling her grey county van (fueled by your tax dollars) as she did in her unsuccessful bid in the mayoral race of 2007. “That’s not gay,” one person nearby calmly observed.”
Sheriff Tom Dart's Pride float; via Taekwonweirdo
