“Certainly, I stand out in a crowd, like I did today,” Mills said in an interview after appearing with other, more traditionally coiffed Republicans vying for state office here. “The hair — I mean, everybody else there was very groomed.” His latest ad opens with Mills saying, with a shrug, “I guess I don’t look like a typical politician.”
At the same time, Mills — who is married with children, but had pictures of him chugging beer plastered in an alternative newspaper last year — needs to show he’s not an overgrown adolescent; that he can exhibit the gravitas of a congressman. The hair can help his campaign, he figures, but he doesn’t want it to become the campaign.
His bid “is about a lot more than that,” Mills said of the Pitt talk. “It’s very serious, we want it to be a very serious campaign. Let other people kind of promote the novelty of it.”
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