For those of them who have seen my candidacy as a publicity stunt or a joke, they should keep in mind that it is no more of a joke, and no less of a joke, than anyone else they care to name. - Jello Biafra Many punk rockers and San Francisco residents will remember the autumn of 1979 - Dead Kennedys front man, Jello Biafra ran for mayor of San Francisco as a prank, using the Jell-O ad campaign catchphrase, "There's always room for Jello" as his slogan. Urban legend has it that Jello wrote his campaign platform on a napkin while attending a Pere Ubu concert - fitting in, if you ask me, with the whole Theatre of the Absurd that the band took its name from (go look up Ubu Roi ). In another absurdist and theatrical move, Biafra wore campaign t-shirts from his opponent Quentin Kopp's previous campaign and even vacuumed leaves off the front lawn of another opponent, Dianne Feinstein , to mock her publicity stunt of sweeping streets in downtown San Francisco for a few h...