From Apprentice to politics
Brownsville - A Pennsylvania congressional candidate and former reality TV star used an elephant and a six-piece mariachi band for an elaborate political stunt designed to make a point about border security.
Raj Peter Bhakta, who was "fired" by Donald Trump on The Apprentice TV show two years ago, paraded an elephant and the band through the water near the mouth of the Rio Grande along the Texas-Mexico border on Tuesday.
"The elephant never made landfall into Mexico, but I tell you something, he could have made 15 laps back and forth, but no one showed up," Bhakta, a Republican, told The Brownsville Herald.
Bhakta, who favours construction of a fence along the border, said he was in Brownsville to raise money with friends when he saw half a dozen men swimming under one of the international bridges.
Circus producer James Plunkett said he was hired for the photo shoot and provided three elephants.
Plunkett said his crew entered the Boca Chica beach area in Texas and remained for about an hour.
The border patrol alerted the US department of agriculture and the elephants were detained and sprayed for ticks then released, the newspaper reported on Wednesday.
News source: www.news24.co.za
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ticks....hhhmmm. We prefer "clicks"
Click Click... Vroom, Vroom
