Drew Hastings  If Clint Eastwood can do it, so can veteran comic
Drew Hastings. "I found myself in the position of running for
mayor in this small town where I am," he says. That town is the
city of Hillsboro, Ohio (population 6,469). Hastings has lived
on a farm near the area for several years now, having fled Los
Angeles and the accompanying phoniness. He insists that his
standup career has prepared him perfectly to run for mayor of a
small Midwestern community. "I've toured this country for 20
years, the Midwest particularly, and I've been to many, many
small towns. I've seen what's going on in them. I've seen what
killed small towns over the last 20 years, and what made some of
them survive and succeed." His dry wit still tells the tale of
man who doesn't quite fit in. "That's still true," he says.
"Even when I hang out with other people who don't fit in, I
don't fit in with them either. And it's like that with my farm.
You could say that's a fish out of water thing. Running for
mayor is a fish out of wat