Subscribe | UPI Odd Newsletter Subscribe NEW YORK, Dec. 24 (UPI) -- The man who made headlines as the Rent Is Too Damn High party candidate for New York governor says he is running for president. Jimmy McMillan, who said he is registering as a Republican to avoid a Democratic primary, told the online "Revolution Radio" he is parlaying his popularity from the gubernatorial race -- in which he received 40,000 votes -- into a bid for the White House, the New York Daily News reported Thursday. Advertisement McMillan, whose past anti-Semitic comments include linking Jews to the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the United States, said he is not worried about going up against Republicans Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich or President Barack Obama. "I can sit here and say how to control the country in 30 seconds, and they can't say it in 30 years," the self-proclaimed "karate master" said. "Not one of them can sit on a stage and address the issues that concern the American public. Not one of them. The president has not done it," he said. "I love you, Mitt Romney. I love all of you guys. Y'all can come and bring me some water." Advertisement
