Levi Johnston to run for mayor on new reality show

Stone and Co.'s Scott Stone and David Weintraub are pitching a new reality show titled "Loving Levi: The Road to the Mayor's Office," according to Variety. The show will focus on Levi Johnston's notoriety and his use of that notoriety to run for mayor of Wasilla, AK, which is coincidentally the same job where his baby grandma Sarah Palin got her start.

Johnston was hesitant at first about the concept, but says, "The most I think about it and look into it, I think there's a possibility we can make it happen. It's something that I want to do."

The mayoral chair isn't up for election until 2012, but Johnston's manager Tank Jones says he may try for city council in the meantime. Which is probably good -- let's not bite off more than we can chew, eh Levi? 

Johnston -- who describes himself as "half red-neck, half Hollywood" -- says he hopes the show would correct what he believes are misconceptions about him in the media.

"It's hard to figure me out," says Johnston. "You've got to follow me around. I'm very different. I lead a crazy life. But it will basically be both worlds, my life in Hollywood and back home, the real country boy that I am."

We wonder if this new-found political career is what made him too good to talk to reporters at the Teen Choice Awards.

This seems like just the thing this country needs right now -- a Levi Johnston reality show and the prospect that he will hold a political office.

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