COPENHAGEN?I suppose he can help his main Manny Pacquiao by staging a last minute push for the Jewish vote, especially the alter cocker (elderly) ballots.
(FYI, especially you goys…Sarangani has four registered, kosher decision makers. Their names are Susan, Sherman and Herman…less than a proper minyan, I know.)
But, even though he is barred by Filipino law from campaigning expressly for Pacman’s Sarangani Congressional spot candidacy in the fighter’s rougher than rough battle against the powerful, connected billionaire Roy Chiongbian, promoter Bob Arum assured me Thursday night by phone from Las Vegas that he will jet to the Philippines.
?I will go in for the final week of the campaign to give Manny some emotional support,? the 78 year old frequent flyer said. ?I am confident that Manny will win and I look forward to introducing him on election night, once the votes are counted, as ‘the Honorable Manny Pacquiao.’
Arum’s numerous 15 hour flights to Pacland on boxing business once elicited this crack from Arum. I asked him, at his advanced age, whether he was concerned about needing medical care while in the archipelago.
?No, I am not, don’t you think I would be surrounded by a bunch of beautiful, young Pinay nurses,? Arum said. ?Manny would make sure of that.?
Aside to Lady Lovee, Bob’s charming wife, it was only a little joke.
Certainly, Arum would never take a turn for the nurse.
Arum loves to dabble in Democratic politics and always has dating back to his youthful start in the U.S, Attorney’s office under Bobby Kennedy.
In the last race for the White House, Arum was a staunch Hillary Clinton supporter until he saw the wind moving in Barack Obama’s direction. Arum bolted the Clinton camp and backed Obama in his winning effort.
Arum is very close to Harry Reid, the Nevada Senator and Democratic Whip, who was an amateur boxing in Searchlight when he was a young buck.
