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Disney Mickey Mouse for Governor Trading Pin Last One!!
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"Mickey For Governor" California SEE: Mickey's " Electoral career" section in below history THIS PIN IS NO LONGER MADE (Circa 2003) This pin was made during the California "Recall" Governor election during 2003. The Election was held on October 7, 2003 and Mickey lost to NOW Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. It might have helped if Mickey wasn't just a write in candidate. The winner of this auction will receive an actual sample ballot for the October 7. 2003 California recall election. See picture. Ballet is in perfect condition except for my name and mailing address on the back is blotted out (for my privacy reasons). This pin has the outline of California and a "Mickey for Governor" sign planted at (or near) the location of Disneyland. The sign is wearing Mickey's Sorcerer's hat. The back is marked "Limited Edition 916". All I have seen have the same number. Area code for Sacramento California which is the Capitol and home for the Governor is 916. With the included ballot this is a true unique collectable item!! Good Luck and happy bidding Mickey Mouse History From Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaMickey Mouse is an Academy Award -winning comic animal cartoon character who has become an icon for The Walt Disney Company . Mickey Mouse was created in 1928 by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks and voiced by Walt Disney . The Walt Disney Company celebrates his birth as November 18 , 1928 upon the release of Steamboat Willie . The anthropomorphic mouse has evolved from being simply a character in animated cartoons and comic strips to become one of the most recognizable symbols in the world. Creation and debutMickey was created as a replacement for Oswald the Lucky Rabbit , an earlier cartoon character created by the Disney studio for Charles Mintz of Universal Studios . In fact, Mickey closely resembled Oswald in his early appearances. Hugh Harman drew some sketches of mice for a photograph of Disney, which inspired Ub Iwerks to create a character to replace Oswald the Lucky Rabbit. This inspiration became one of Disney's most recongisable characters in the world, Mickey Mouse. When Disney asked for a larger budget for his popular Oswald series, Mintz announced he had hired the bulk of Disney's staff, but that Disney could keep doing the Oswald series, as long as he agreed to a budget cut and went on the payroll. Mintz owned Oswald and thought he had Disney over a barrel. Angrily, Disney refused the deal and returned to California to produce the final Oswald cartoons he contractually owed Mintz. Disney was dismayed at the betrayal by his staff, but determined to restart from scratch. The new Disney Studio initially consisted of animator Ub Iwerks and a loyal apprentice artist, Les Clark. One lesson Disney learned from the experience was to tafter always make sure that he owned all rights to the characters produced by his company. In the spring of 1928, Disney asked Ub Iwerks to start drawing up new character ideas. Iwerks tried sketches of frogs, dogs and cats, but none of these appealed to Disney. A female cow and male horse were also rejected. They would later turn up as Clarabelle Cow and Horace Horsecollar . Ub Iwerks eventually got inspiration from an old drawing. In 1925, Hugh Harman drew some sketches of mice around a photograph of Walt Disney. These inspired Ub Iwerks to create a new mouse character for Disney called Mickey Mouse. "We felt that the public, and especially the children, like animals that are cute and little. I think we are rather indebted to Charlie Chaplin for the idea. We wanted something appealing, and we thought of a tiny bit of a mouse that would have something of the wistfulness of Chaplin -- a little fellow trying to do the best he could." "When people laugh at Mickey Mouse, it's because he's so human; and that is the secret of his popularity." "I only hope that we don't lose sight of one thing -- that it was all started by a mouse." -- Walt Disney Plane CrazyMickey and Minn... 
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