Lest you worry that Minnesota has cornered the market on non-traditional elected officials, Don S. reminds us that Wisconsin has an air guitar champ set to serve a second term in its state assembly. The news comes from the overseas Guardian. Of course it does.

Representing a small college town in the Wisconsin state legislature is a champion air guitar player, featured in the 2006 movie Air Guitar Nation. Gordon Hintz, a 35-year-old budget analyst and former instructor at the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh was just reelected to a second term in the Wisconsin state assembly. … Hintz, a life-long rock fan, was a 29-year-old budget analyst for the city of Long Beach, California outside Los Angeles, when he came to air guitar. Some friends heard about a competition held at a prominent Los Angeles nightclub, and urged Hintz to enter. “I really had very little idea of what I was getting into,” he told me about his 2003 leap into air guitar stardom. “At worst case scenario it would be a pretty fun night out with my friends.” But Hintz, in character as “Krye Tuff”, wowed the audience and judges with his performance of David Lee Roth’s “Yankee Rose”. He was crowned “west coast” champion and advanced to the final round.

And yes, there is video.

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