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Mindy Meyer - the diva who aims to be a New York state senator

August 2, 2012 13:04
The magenta yenta: Mindy Meyer is putting her message across in a glow of pink

ByJennifer Lipman, Jennifer Lipman

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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.