Okay folks, it’s time!
Time to send in your nominations for the 9th Annual – yes 9th, Good Lord! – Golden Duke Awards. It’s not the holiday season without the Golden Duke Awards, TPM’s annual homage to the year’s best purveyors of public corruption, outlandish behavior and The Crazy. (The awards are named in honor of Congressman-turned-inmate-turned-ex-con Randy “Duke” Cunningham. See the letter Cunningham sent one-time TPM reporter Ryan Reilly back in 2011. Yes, we’ve been doing this so long, Duke Cunningham isn’t even in jail anymore.)
How do you participate?
This year’s categories are
CATEGORIES
-BEST SCANDAL: GENERAL INTEREST
-BEST SCANDAL: SEX & GENERALIZED CARNALITY
-BEST SCANDAL: LOCAL VENUE
-MERITORIOUS ACHIEVEMENT IN THE CRAZY
-BEST CONSPIRACY THEORY
Feel the excitement!
How do you participate?
Email talk (at) talkingpointsmemo.com with your nominations no later than December 10th, identifying the person you’re nominating and make your case in no more than 250 words for why he or she deserves a place in the rogues gallery of Golden Dukes winners. Only notorious individuals are eligible for the award — parties, issues, groups, etc. are not eligible. Nominees have to be specific, real persons.