(CNN) – Charles Montgomery Burns, better known as Mr. Burns in the hit animated TV series "The Simpsons", got the most votes of any write-in candidate during last month's mayoral election in New York City. According to records released by the New York City Board of Elections, the cartoon billionaire received 27 write-in votes out of the 299 that were cast.
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.
Many New York City and state political figures also got votes, including former New York City mayors Ed Koch, Rudy Giuliani, and David Dinkins. Others include Bill and Hillary Clinton, former New York governor George Pataki, Rep. Anthony Weiner, and the candidates from this year's congressional race in New York's 23rd district Dede Scozzafava and Doug Hoffman.
Three historical figures also got votes: former presidents Abraham Lincoln and Teddy Roosevelt, and Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler. Other noteworthy figures getting a nod were New York Yankees shortstop Derek Jeter, radio shock jock Howard Stern, deceased comedian Rodney Dangerfield, and Robert Burke, better known to many New Yorkers as "the Naked Cowboy."
Burns and the rest of the write-in candidates ultimately lost to real-life billionaire and incumbent mayor Michael Bloomberg.
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Excellent
If anyone doesn't believe this is the most interesting country in the world, read this article.
Has America asked itself why the elected leaders in the House and Senate from States that are bankrupt and socially out of control are the ones driving the train? I mean, speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi is from San Francisco, the weirdest most freakiest City in America located in the most financially dysfunctional and bankrupt State in the Union. Just look at who and what we have "leading" our Nation, no wonder we are in dire straits. What can Government give you, that is their platform for re-election, over and over. People want to blame Wall Street bankers for making money of TARP monies, they should blame Washington for not putting the financial and regulatory stipulations on the FREE money, not Wall Street sharks.
So your saying that Montgomery Burns DID win???
Here's a conspiracy theory....
Michael Bloomberg and Montgomery Burns have the SAME initials!!!!!
Can anyone suggest any other similarities???
You're telling me that Bloomberg is NOT Monty?? Dooh!
Billionaires always win and they always get their own way. Just ask Oprah.
Curiously, how do people get that stinking rich?
That was not an election, it was an auction, and the highest bid ($100 million?) bought the office. So much for government of, for and by the people...
What's America coming to??.....we're our own worst enemy.
And you all probably think it's funny.
Sadly, all those listed were far more suited to the job than the guy who BOUGHT the job. Nice going, NY.
Your reputation as America's Cesspool is safe.
Oh, they thought they were voting for Rudy Ghoulie Guliani.
I don't know what they smoking in New York but it must be good.
Slow political news day I guess!
How did Stephen Colbert not even get a mention here? Nation???
I suspect that Mr. Bruns would be the lessor of the evils that NY had to choose from. Sad really.
I'm just surprised that there were only 299 write-in votes!
Hey Death Panel Sarah what gives? This article was about NYC – why the slam of SF (my home town)?! It's not like anyone wrote in Emporer Norton". Brush up on your history and figure that on out! Lighten up! Just think if enough people wrote "Dick Cheney" or "GW" or that god awful "Karl Rove"... Thank goodness we voted the right person back into office!
I thought New Jersey was America's Cesspool.
Fun article. Good to see people having a sense of humor when none of the candidates appeal to them.
he has and will do whats right for the city
money isnot the issue but the health and welfare of the city.
Obama is trying to do the same thing nation wide .. so lets support both of them as to get our great nation back on track to what is right and not beleive the Bush Cheney Rove doctrine ( threats and fear )
lets make AMERICA great again .with truth and justice and morals of everyone has the right to be free and use there rights toi choice .
What happened to Kent Brockman? He was predicting he would win in a landslide.
Burns would have been a better mayor!
Tom Tucker's exclusive report on Kent's liasons with interns and producers crushed his chances.
Generations of Americans will complain of the government they have until someone actually does something about it.
I like all the above comments, btw. Consensus has been achieved.
Lenny, with Carl as his Vice mayor, would have cleaned the city up from the filth and corruption.
This birther stink is too awful funny. Do any of you liberal Obama worshipers know that Phil Berg, a high ranking Philadelphia lawyer member of the Democratic party for electing Hillary Queen is the one that filed the first objection to Obama's citizenship. It was not about where he was born, although that was questioned, it is about his having dual citizenship. His mother was a minor when she had him, should he have been born in Kneya, which is irrelevant now, he would have not been an automatic US citizen. Berg's complaint was based on both issues, Obama would have been a Nationalized citizen, not a Natural born citizen on either count as he was taken to Indonesia as a child where he was required to become a citizen of Indonesia to attend, yes you guessed it, a Muslim school. But hey, we are all white racist bigots for questioning the Messiah....time will tell all.
Vote Quimby!
ACORN is accused of putting dead people down as voters, yet I guess this is supposed to be funny! I'm sure that the right wing will want to investigate this as well.
Oh brother. Glad I live in Los Angeles. We're alot saner over here.
Vote Quimby!
Monty Burnms is as much a "Man of the people as any Republican on the national scene today" Better himthan some of the others.
I voted for Mr. hankey!
This just goes to show you what a shill Bloomberg is. When a politician claims that there is nobody better qualified to perform the duties as mayor of NYC than Bloomberg, even afer being extremely outspoken about NOT ending term limits when that other shill, Rudy 9/11 wanted to end term limits, its time to dump him!
Bloomberg is a douche, and the maggots of NYC fell for it.
Mayor of New York would be a good next step for Mr. Burns considering he already had a stint as the nation's VP. Remember? He went under the alias of Mr. Cheney.
Wow! Harry Shearer is going to be a busy man!!! Exxxxxxcellent!
New York is not called the greatest city on Earth for nothing. I love this City for the noise, people of every nation on Earth and even the crazy Republicans from the back woods that visit some times.
I saw this group of people walking on 34th Street a few months ago; a man in the group was talking on a cell phone, and said in a loud voice " I am going to Macy" To say I was shocked would be an understatement. Yeah, we all know Macy and yes the 34th Street Macy if the flag ship but who cares?
Yeah? And by how many votes did the Simpsons billionaire win the election?
Some nuts will write in anything to convince themselves that they are cute.
Our mayor remains in office because he is a GREAT mayor.
The fact that some people waste away a precious right which so many in this world don't have says volumes about the decadent society we have become. The fact that any news media would waste space writing about it speaks volumes about the sensationalistic, yellow-journalistic approach the media has sunk to.
Jesus Christ! This isn't news!
I'd rather watch you go investigate 9/11 into eternity than hear about how Montgomery Burns is getting a double digit vote count in a real physical election.
CNN please tell that Gary Davis from Oregon that this ticker is about New York and not Obama.You brain washed socialist take a pill.
What Obama has that for USA?
Hommer and Burns bring us fun in to our living room.
Obama?promises.
The money people will spend to have power – Bloomberg spent 102 million dollars on himself to get reelected. This creates an uneven playing field. Congress should enact laws making it mandatory to exclude private fiancing to elected office. It should be congressional allocated monies and the same amounts for each candidate. Instead of wasting all this money on pork barrell projects, why don't they bring back the motto, "man the best person win", not the richest. This is how Obama got himself elected, accepting tons of cash from bundles after stating he would stick to public financing. 102 million dollars – and people are starving, dying, tortured, homeless all over the world. 102 million dollars could hav alleviated alot of suffering. No wonder the nations of the world look upon us with disdain.
Thank God Burns didn't win... Those Simpsons characters wreak havoc whenever they get into political office. Remember: we just recently got past 8 years of Barney Gumble in the White House!
That's fairly sophisticated political commentary in the form of write-ins. Basically voting for Mike Bloomberg's alter ego.
i think from now on.we need to write in mr. burns. lets make it a phenomenon to show our dissatisfaction
If I was a New Yorker, I would have voted for Pat Paulson.
Hey Joe! Kent got lost on his way to the poles afte him and Whitney went down the wrong road.
This makes me happy.
this is why we will all ways be laughed at around the world because we do not take politics serious enough. when people learn to vote for the most qualified person rather the party or some off the wall nut we will stay mesed up.
If you were in NYC prior to the election you would have noticed large posters throughout the city with an image of Montgomery Burns and the text "No Third Term, Vote for Mr. Burns."
They were pretty hard to miss. Obviously CNN missed them ... Google it CNN.
So billionaires got both the majority vote and the majority write in vote. They both invested similar percentage of their money in the process (hundreds of millions Bloomberg and 0 Mr. Burns) and got similar results. New Yorkers are really predictable!!!
I think mayor Quimby would've done better than GWbush and his circle of jerks ...