assange to run for Senate

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will run

for a Senate seat, a tweet from the
whistleblowing website says
Julian Assange will run for a Senate seat
in the 2013 federal election and his mum
reckons he'll be awesome.
Christine Assange confirmed her son's
candidacy on Wednesday after WikiLeaks
tweeted the news.
"He will be awesome," she told AAP.
"In the House of Representatives we get
to choose between US lackey party
number one and US lackey party number
two - between the major parties.
"So it will be great to `Assange" the
Senate for some Aussie oversight."
Queensland-born Assange, who founded
the secret-leaking website WikiLeaks,
announced his Senate ambition last
December from Ecuador's London
embassy.
He sought refuge there last June in a bid
to avoid extradition to Sweden.
Mr Assange fears if he goes to Sweden to
be questioned over rape allegations,
authorities will allow him to be extradited
to the US to be questioned over
WikiLeaks' release of thousands of US
diplomatic cables.
He said last year he would run as a Senate
candidate under a yet-to-be-formed
WikiLeaks party banner and was recruiting
others to stand with him.
The election will be held on September
14.