NYers perplexed by voting mailer touting candidate who prayed to be Taylor Swifts husband

The fate of Ophelia is on this year’s ballot.New Yorkers are puzzled over a City Council candidate who branded himself a “jealous Swiftie” who “prayed to be Taylor Swift’s husband” in an official Big Apple election mailer highlighting his platform.The literature from NYC Votes features this year’s only council election — in which long shot candidate Haris Bhatti is challenging Councilman Carl Wilson (D-District 3) — who took office earlier this year during a special election for the open seat.The voting guide mailed out to city dwellers features the two candidates in the November 3 race for District 3 on Manhattan’s West Side and their self-written political bios — including a bizarre aside from Bhatti about his favorite pop star.“I’m a jealous Swiftie who prayed to be Taylor Swift’s husband,” the last line of Bhatti’s blurb reads.One shocked mailer recipient took to X to see if the unexpected shout-out to the “Bad Blood” singer was actually real.“Need everyone in New York to wake up and look at who they used as an example for the city council voting guide for the upcoming election because it’s insane,” one X user wrote with a photograph of Bhatti’s campaign bio. Bhatti didn’t shy away from his Swiftie-dom in an interview with The Post – claiming the pop superstar inspired him to run in the first place.“First I was trying to get the attention of a female celebrity I admire.

Second, there are issues I want to make more main stream,” he said.Bhatti’s other policy points range from banning smoking, vaping, and gambling to touting 9/11 conspiracy theories and “fixing the student debt crisis,” according to his website. But it was his apparently dream of marrying Swift, who is famously married to Kansas City Chief Travis Kelce, that got voters talking.

“Yes, the Swiftie thing is hilarious, but banning tobacco?? Who is this person???? this must be a joke bc I literally think this collection of political prefe...