No, not Eliot Spitzer ’81. He’s forever disgraced, remember? Spending $80,000 over 10 years on “high-end” prostitutes?
Spitzer’s legacy, however, hasn’t stopped former USG President PJ Kim ’01 from pursuing public office in New York. Kim is running for New York City Council, trying to unseat incumbent councilman Alan Gerson in District 1.
Kim is by far the youngest candidate in the five-person race, and he has raised an impressive $70,000 in the first two weeks of his campaign.
The Korean-American, who graduated from Princeton before the Age of Shirley, has a résumé that would give any Woody Woo concentrator an instant hard-on: Woody Woo major, USG President, Young Alumni Trustee, stint at McKinsey, joint MBA/MPA from Harvard.
Let’s just hope he doesn’t have an Ashley Dupré.
(image source: pjkim.com)
PJ Kim is an amazing campaigner. As a lowly freshman, I bumped into him once – ONCE – in a Butler entryway and we talked for less than 25 seconds about him running for a midlevel USG post and what things I wanted to see changed on campus. Two years later, as a phenomenally successful USG prez, he remembered my name, that conversation, and my suggestions without any prompting.
God help whomever he’s running against.