Meet Benjamin Thomas Wolf, the 43-year-old Democratic congressional candidate for Illinois’ Fifth District.
With the March 20 special election just around the corner, Wolf is doing everything you’d expect: playing bingo at a senior center, shaking countless hands and making his platform known.
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But his campaign has made history for a less-conventional strategy: Wolf has taken out ad space on adult site PornHub.
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Not only that, he’s tweeted about it with pride:
Thats one small step for #porn, one giant leap for #politics. I’m proud to be the first ever political ad on adult content. #progressive #sex #drugs #chicago #wolfforcongress #cannabis #cannabiscandidate #legalizeit #VoteMarch20 pic.twitter.com/xFjZyxx13H
— Benjamin Thomas Wolf (@benjaminwolfBTW) March 6, 2018
And as if that wasn’t enough, he’s also smoking a joint in the ad, which includes the caption “legalize it.” We’ll just let you deduce where he comes down on recreational marijuana laws.
“We are going where young voters are,” Wolf told the Observer.
“It’s important to have a progressive voice to move the country forward,” he added. “We’re reaching out to young people to get them to vote. If young people vote, they can get anything they want.”
PornHub boasts a reach of roughly 81 million people a day, 78% of which are people under 40.
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“Their heads are buried in their phones, their eyes are on screens and I am speaking directly to them,” Wolf said.
The ads are set up to appear across Chicago to various demographics using the site, so we can only assume they’re targeted to appear on gay content as well as straight.
Wolf previously served as a national security investigator for the FBI and a special agent and diplomat for the State Department. He’s in favor of universal healthcare and an assault weapons ban, among other progressive stances.
Sounds like a real catch!
Here’s Wolf explaining why assault rifles need to go:
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whatsaywhat
That site is like the president’s personal Tinder. He’s not gonna be happy about this.
dfwenigma
Damn. Front and center. I don’t care if this guy is gay, straight, bi or what – he is ON it. This ad says one thing: I’m a leader and I know what the heck I’m talking about. I hope this guy makes it and that he doesn’t become “Mr Smith” once he goes to Washington.
mujerado
What’s wrong with Mr. Smith?
ivanw222
Refreshing to see a candidate make a straightforward claim, no one can mistake his position. Just wish he was running where I could vote for him.
Trekbike
I do live where I get to vote for him and I’m damn happy about it!! I can’t wait to cast my vote for this guy!!! Way to go Benjamin Wolf on porn, smoking joints, and assault weapons!! Finally, a guy who cares more about the people than the office he’s seeking!!
bookworm
Absolutely!
Redmage
Meh he’s corny.. I’m a Libertarian, I believe in maximum freedom, and maximum responsibility.. I’m also positive he knows absolutely nothing about firearms, like all the other twats calling to ban this or ban that..
Also as a gay person, I’m especially supportive of the second amendment..Not too long ago, I had people coming to my house trying to cause trouble, some of which made threats.. I’d call the police every time they showed up, but always had my firearm.. Because the police do not appear Star Trek teleport style to your place, and if any one of those assholes had gotten into my home, they’d be dead.
But forget people like that for a second.. We also have a problem with Islamic fascist, who have stated that going after schools, hospitals, shopping centers, clubs, ect is their new thing.. We don’t yet have that bad of a problem with it, the way Europe does, because they are foolish- but our “leaders” here are also foolish, so I can easily see that happening.
I don’t put my life in the hands of the government sorry, (this means police departments). Especially since in the last couple of shootings we’ve had, the police waited outside.. I don’t hate police, (especially since my partner is one), but often times they are made to follow procedure, that is quite ridiculous.
As far as federal government goes.. I don’t wake up in fear of the government taking over… But I understand, it can happen, and how it could happen.. Anyone who doesn’t have such thought in the back of their mind, is a fool. 2an amendment was put in place specifically for that reason.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVs9psi_G5k&feature=youtu.be&bpctr=1520461196
projo
Point taken although my experience w/ Republicans is that they all have these insane paranoid delusions that the govt will take over at any minute at all citizens should own closets full of assault rifles and have an armed tank in the backyard at the ready. Armageddon!!!
Although, with Trump at the helm, it may not be such an unreasonable fear. I can easily picture Pence and Trump carting off gay people to a barbed wire enclosure in Oklahoma – Holocaust style – as one GOP state rep from OK once suggested.
tham
Geez, you have groups of people showing up at your home looking for trouble? Then you talk about Islamic fascist…
Ok, that sounds…like…a possible….thing.
You sound completely legit…no Pro NRA Russian bot here…
crowebobby
He knows “nothing” about a weapon he used in war?! That’s a pretty blanket statement, since you don’t tell us why you know more about it.
pudman56
Banning assault and semi-assault weapons from the general public, since they are weapons of war, is no infringement on your 2nd amendment rights. However, you are entitled to all the buckshot bazooka’s they used when writing the Constitution you care to own. The 2nd amendment argument is so overused it’s not even worth talking to it’s supporters about. A handgun protects you, an assault rifle rips your organs to shreds and hits many victims in seconds. I don’t think that’s what the forefathers had in mind, but meh, I’m sure you disagree. So, go shoot a squirrel with your AR-15 if that’s the only way you can hit it.
Brody
Well said, Redmage.
pudman –
I agree that there are certain weapons which should be banned from civilian use, such as tanks, hand grenades, bazookas, or flame throwers, and that automatics should likewise be banned, but I’ve met too many “gun control” people who are only interested in disarming the public at large, not restricting our access to deadlier weapons.
Trekbike
I’m a veteran that wholly believes in the constitution, after all, I gave four years of my life guaranteeing the rights of the U.S. Constitution. But, there’s absolutely no good reason, or right for a civilian to own a mass destructive weapon that is used in war. Should we all have access to nuclear weapons because our government can use them?, I think NOT!!! Same thing goes for assault weapons! The constitution guarantees the right to bear arms but, NOT the right to bear a weapon of mass destruction, and an assault rifle is a weapon of mass destruction. Wake up before one of your loved ones is murdered by an assault weapon!!!!
Trekbike
Remember hateful pastor Swanson that was begging the U.S. government to section the murdering of all gay people? I also remember republican presidential hopefuls, Mike (hateful) Huckabee and Ted (Hateful) Cruze going to pastor Swanson’s televised christian revival, of course both nominees denied knowing he felt that way. I’m saying this again, it happened in Germany and it can happen again anywhere in the world. People has short memories and that’s why history repeats itself.
JAWIWA
^^Typical GOP klansman^^
The 2nd amendment was written to enable slaveholders to arm poor whites to 1) patrol slave quarters and enforce white supremacy and 2) to hunt down runaway slaves. That’s what those militias were.
dfwenigma
Although I hear your sentiment and don’t disagree that there were nefarious purposes for the Second Amendment I don’t entirely agree either. We have to look at this from a very reasoned standpoint. In 1779 America was bursting at the seams. We were expanding and sadly that meant that both Native people and people of color were enslaved and in many cases killed in large numbers. By the same token today we don’t think about how wild the land was. Wild boar, bears, lions and other fairly large game were plentiful. And frankly for most folks the game was a source of food. Also whether we see them as invading preditors or something else mostly white people trecking westward to Tennesee, Kentucky, Ohio and so on needed to protect their families. The Independents and Far Right folks whose hair trigger views are pretty frightening never seem to be able to answer a fairly basic question. If our Continental Congress and succeeding Congresses intended for large scale, powerful arms to be the norm, why then were canons such an exception. Why didn’t everyone have one? And then after 1862 why were Gatling guns not in every home? I think there are sound reasons and I think the right-wing nuts really can’t answer those questions because they know the answers. Although a fair number of the Continental Congress were slaveholders, one of my cousins, a General of George Washington, General Arthur St. Clair, was not a slaveholder and would not have supported such a thing. Likewise I don’t think Franklin would have supported slavery. The North / South lines were pretty well drawn and slavery as a reality – and I speak of mass slaveholding – was largely a southern tradition based on a slave-based economic system.
tham
The part the Gun Nuts don’t like about the 2nd is the whole “well regulated militia” part.
Well regulated means…eye exams, written test, license and re-licensing, insurance.
It should be no easier for some to have a car, than a gun. And believe me, all that regulation doesn’t stop a soul from owning a car. Just drive around during Rush hour to see what I mean.
Brody
Everyone’s a racist!
Everything’s racist!
Racism, racism, racism!
Prax07
Wish he was representing us here in Pa, he’d get my vote.
Sam6969
Maybe he just set a trend in politics? The candidates running for the US Presidential elections will be rushing to porn sites to reach out people at the climax of their attention, anchoring deeply their messages, putting their face side-by-side with double penetration videos…How clever and stylish! ^^
KiwiJello
He shares my views on guns AND looks like Clark Kent. Superman for Congress!!! Has my vote 🙂
Me2
Ehh, I really don’t want to see political ads on porn sites, no matter how handsome the candidate may be.
Brian
Booooo. I just came here to see his dick.
rozz01
you make me sad
chicagopride
“Sounds like a real catch”
‘Cannabis candidate’ for Congress touts service as an FBI agent. He wasn’t an FBI agent.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/politics/ct-met-illinois-5th-congressional-district-benjamin-wolf-20180305-story.html
I fell in love with the ‘Cannabis Candidate.’ Then I got burned
https://www.chicagoreader.com/Bleader/archives/2018/03/08/i-fell-in-love-with-the-cannabis-candidate-then-i-got-burned
‘Cannabis candidate’ accused of abusing women and inflating his resume
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/03/07/ben-wolf-illinois-congress-candidate-444371
Luc
@chicagopride Wow!!!!!!! That’s some serious dirt, right there. Personally, I think he looks a little smug. His positions on issues sound great but if he is a lying liar, maybe he’s no better than Trump.
Kangol
Refreshing candidate, he’d get my vote.
Notright
Interesting. Not sure if he’s handsome though. Anyway if you are interested to know your chances of finding love take this survey. https://packedman.com/quiz/gay-relationships-survey/
sanguinewoods
Fuckin A bro.
fur_hunter
OK….Brains, Good-Looks, and Youth. I hope he wins. When will folks get it that gay people were made to work in the servicing industries? Why do you think that the best waiters, nurses, store clerks, you nake it………ARE GAY!!!!! I worked as the seafood specialist in Atlanta for Publix Supermarkets for over 12 years. I loved my job. Upper management loved me because I had a huge following of customers. My seafood case was so nice looking the way I set it up that the Regional Manager came by to take pictures of it. “I want other seafood departments to see how a seafood case should look.” And on my last day at work, a Sunday, before retiring, my District Manager and Regional Manager came in to see me on their day off to wish me well and how sorry they were that I was leaving. Yeah. WE were meant to serve the public in all capacities, including politics.
davidjohng
…healing arts, funeral work, artists, spiritual “sciences”, etc. anything involving being a go-between the physical and non-physical planes.
Brody
This clown is also accused of assaulting two former girlfriends, falsely claiming to be an FBI agent, and stolen valor as an Iraq war veteran.
In other words, he’s the perfect Democrat.
prarie pup
“Accused of” and “convicted of” are not the same thing. I can accuse you of molesting every 10 year old child within the surrounding 10 counties…does that make it true?
batesmotel
I’m assuming that means you don’t support this “Me Too” trend then? Where everyone is running around accusing people of being inappropriate without evidence a crime was committed.
ShowMeGuy
Porn is not a crime.
prarie pup
He’s absolutely right about the weapon. I was in the Army and received extensive training on the AR15 (the civilian version of the Army’s M16). Not one sentence in the veritable “phone book sized” amount of training we received said, “It’s also good for hunting.”
That rifle is made for killing PEOPLE, not for hunting. Do NOT be deceived by the NRA.
hansniemeijer
Huh? Isn’t that Clark Kent aka Superman? (haha)