Durango Herald awards a Benjamin to the best-looking president
The Durango Herald is offered $100 prize for the best presidential impersonation to celebrate Halloween.
Janet Kenna won in a presidential suit and tie crowned by tossing her auburn hair into a Donald Trump coif, then sending in a picture to the local paper.
Her C-note comes in the form of a card to Durango’s El Moro Spirits and Tavern, allegedly the site of a 1906 shootout in which the town marshal (intentionally) killed the sheriff.
Kenna won in a landslide.
So reports the Durango Herald:
Kenna is the only reader who submitted a photo (other than a man who sent us a picture of his dog looking like Teddy Roosevelt).
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