#TBT to Lonnie “Cottontail” Johnson aka the White House Easter Bunny

What do you do when you’re the husband of powerful Barack Obama advisor Julianna Smoot and are running for Congress in MI-01?

A.)  Use that connection to travel the world and meet important people?

B.)  Catch a baseball game with the President in Cuba?

C.)  Dress up in a bunny costume and gleefully hop around the White House grounds with a bunch of toddlers?

Answer:  If you are Lonnie “Cottontail” Johnson, the answer is C – but just by “a hare”.

Happy Easter!

NRCC Comment:  “Will Lon Johnson dress up as Barack Obama’s personal Easter Bunny once again this year to avoid being in Northern Michigan where he’s running for Congress?  Lon Johnson lives in Detroit and tweets out stock photos of Northern Michigan when he is actually down in Washington so you wouldn’t have to hop too far down the rabbit hole to reach that conclusion.” –NRCC Spokesman Chris Pack

Was Michigan Dem chief the Easter Bunny?
The Washington Post
By Al Kamen
April 8, 2013
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/in-the-loop/post/was-michigan-dem-chief-the-easter-bunny/2013/04/08/757b5f30-a05a-11e2-82bc-511538ae90a4_blog.html

Johnson, who became chairman of the floundering state party in February, didn’t reply to several calls and messages on his cell phone — including one where he answered and said he’d call back.

The calls were to confirm and ask him about what we’d heard was a bravura turn as Mr. Bunny at the White House Easter Egg Roll, based on what we’d heard from a knowledgeable source.

(A great performance is one where you don’t hurt yourself — your vision through the bunny’s mouth is quite limited — and you don’t step on the little kids.)

The totally transparent Obama White House — in contrast to just about every prior administration including Richard M. Nixon’s — also has kept secret the names of those who have volunteered to don the hazardous and truly uncomfortable bunny costume.

Maybe there’s some sort of al-Qaeda connection?