She’s 22, Orthodox, sports a sun tan, speaks with a nasal New York accent, and has a sparkly, shocking-pink campaign website — and she is hoping to become an elected representative in Brooklyn.
Mindy Meyer, who has earned comparisons with the Elle Woods character in the film Legally Blonde — despite being a brunette — is perhaps the most unlikely Republican hopeful since Sarah Palin arrived on the scene.
Ms Meyer, who is hoping to be voted in as a state senator in November, claims to be “the first young woman in the history of New York to run for the State Senate”.
Whether or not the self-proclaimed “Diva of the District” will succeed in unseating the Democrat incumbent, she has certainly captured the media’s attention, not least by corrupting the song I’m sexy and I know it, to I’m senator and I know it as her campaign motto.