Ole Savior, a Minneapolis resident who has long been described as a “perennial” candidate for governor or U.S. Senator, is now officially a candidate for president. A self-described writer, poet and artist, he fired up his fax machine this week to blitz his hometown news media with news that the New Hampshire Secretary of State has accepted his declaration of candidacy to run as a Democratic candidate in that state’s primary and will be listed on

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the ballot as “O. Savior.”

To date, Savior is zero-for-nine in his statewide runs for office and most recently unsuccessfully ran for mayor of Minneapolis, despite his declaration a few years ago that “I don’t fool around with small offices like mayor.”

In an information packet Savior sent around with the news from New Hampshire, he noted that his favorite movie is “Lord of the Rings,” his favorite book, the Book of Revelation and his favorite actress Mariyln Monroe.

Savior, who has often bristled at being described as a gadfly or repeat loser (going so far as to once suing the Star Tribune for $100 million), also is trying to get on the ballot in Iowa, North Dakota, Texas and Arizona. No word from him (yet) on whether he’s been successful.

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