Vote For Your Favorite Lakai Shoe
May 15, 2008 – 11:22 pm PT by MikeTags: Eric Koston, Marc Johnson, Mike Carroll, Rick Howard —
I love politics and I love campaigning for people. When I was eight years old, I suggested my buddy John Kraner be put on the voting ballot for “Head of the Library”. His job would basically be the person responsible for cleaning up the reading area after library time. Him and I campaigned by threatening most of our classmates with a punch in the arm if they didn’t vote him in. True story. Of course he lost because some girl ratted us out and instead we got sent to the principal’s office.
Then there was the 10th grade in my humanities class. One of my best friends was this kid named Ting Pong Heung. He was an exchange student from China with a great accent. Him and I would talk about guns the entire time in class. When it was time to pick a homecoming king, I campaigned for him by getting our entire class of 60 to put his name on the ballot. After the class period ended, we all walked out of the classroom chanting his name, “Ting! Ting! Ting!” True story. Ting, if you read this, contact me dude. I miss you. I think he’s a police officer now. By the way, Ting got killed in the voting.
Anyway aside from my history of great campaigning, I’m leading a new charge. And no it’s not for some boring national level election, it’s for the best Lakai shoe. On the ballot is Mike Carrol, Rick Howard, Eric Koston, and Marc Johnson. Unfortunately I associate coolness with people and my favorite skater isn’t on the ballot and that’s Guy Mariano. So im campaigning for Guy to get his shoe on the ballot, even if he doesn’t have a signature shoe, they should make one for him. But if you want to partake in this election, the voting begins 6/15 on Lakai’s new website. It’s pretty fresh so you should check it out. You can listen to each nominee give his argument as to why their shoe is the coolest.
