WTF???  Prince Frederic von Anhalt, better known as Zsa Zsa Gabor’s 8th husband, has declared he’s running as an independent for the Governorship.  It looks like he’s running on a pretty liberal platform, what with being in favor of gay marriage, legalizing marijuana, and raising taxes on certain products.

He already has a platform (titled “Return the Good Life to California”) that is sure to win favor with a certain segment of California’s electorate. He wants to lift the import ban on Cuban cigars, then tax them, and reduce vehicle-registration fees, making up the difference in part by taxing “bad drivers.”

He also is offering what he says are realistic proposals that will have an immediate effect on California’s $20 billion budget deficit.

One proposal is a “sin tax” on alcoholic beverages and cigarettes, as well as marijuana and prostitution, which, under his platform, would be legalized.

“Marijuana is a big industry already,” von Anhalt said in a telephone interview from his home in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Bel Air, where he cares for his 93-year-old wife. “Let’s legalize it, tax it, make some money and put less people in jail.”

A statewide initiative to legalize and tax marijuana is likely to appear on the November ballot.

He also favors repealing the ban on gay marriage, which voters wrote into the state constitution in 2008.

“I believe in marriage between men and women, but I am also a defender of the constitution, which says equal rights for all,” he said in his platform. “Let them be as miserable as the rest of us.”

Now, why am I finding out about this in the Boston Globe, rather than the L.A. Times or the San Francisco Chronicle?