Next Tuesday millions of Americans will head to the polls for the midterm elections. As we approach November 4 it seems there is no shortage of opinions on our Washington leaders.
Rock legend Gene Simmons stopped by Yahoo Finance recently to promote his new book Me, Inc. The book is focused on how Simmons became a successful businessman. He also spoke about how having more business minded professionals in Congress can fix a broken Washington.
As you might expect the Kiss co-founder didn’t mince words.
“The only thing we need to do is to stop electing politicians and get business people into government,” Simmons says. For him the only issues that should matter are the economy and safety.
“All the hoopla about gay rights or whether or not you love farm animals and I don’t - it’s like live and let live. That’s really not an issue...Get businessmen into government. Elect me as the beneficient [sic] dictator,” he says. “I would ravage this economy and stop all kinds of stupid political spending..well, don’t get me started.”
Programming note: Don't miss Katie Couric's coverage of the midterm elections next Tuesday night at 11pm eastern. Katie will be joined on "The Midterm Mixer" by former "Meet the Press" moderator David Gregory, Grover Norquist, Yahoo's Matt Bai, and many more.
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