Campaign Song Excites Funkhouser
March 2nd, 2007 by Moe Casey
Mark Funkhouser, having advanced to the general election as a mayoral candidate, was surprised to hear what was apparently some kind of campaign song while auto-seeking through radio stations as he drove home from the grocery store yesterday. “It was a very hip and urban,” Funkhouser said in an interview, “but I was pretty sure we hadn’t commissioned a campaign song.” Just to be sure, he asked his wife, Gloria, who manages the candidate’s campaign.
“I haven’t talked to anybody about creating a song,” Mrs. Squitiro said. “This is a bit peculiar, we are trying very hard to find the source of the song so we can ensure that the artist is not violating campaign law.”
The song, which Funkhouser describes as “A very catchy, hip, urban, modern tune, almost like an evolution of that ‘hip hop’ stuff,” apparently contains the following refrain:
We want the Funk, give us the Funk
We want the Funk, gotta have that Funk
According to Funkhouser, the song refers to “tear(ing) the roof off the mother, sucker,” which is indicative of Funkhouser’s attitude toward implementing drastic change at City Hall. The song also states that, “we gonna turn this mother out,” apparently in reference to outgoing mayor Kay Barnes.