I mean, I have a REALLY checkered past! I lived in Berkeley in the late 60s...
Heck, I’ve often thought that if you pull a bunch of people at random off the street (not homeless people but regular people) they’d at least make better congressmen than the suits in DC.
Look at Joe the Plumber!
If Ayers the Bomber can be a professor who launched the career of the current Dem Presidential nominee, lj from Berkley (I haven't forgotten) can at least run for state senate and/or congress! : )