Career
His art includes a run for public office in the 1978 California gubernatorial election, when his primary challenge to Governor Jerry Brown received some 62,000 votes. He is the creator of the "Fat City School of Finds Art," an unaccredited institution that grants free Masters and Doctor of Philosophy degrees to arts students. In 2010, 32 years after their last election faceoff, Darling once again challenged Jerry Brown in the race for governor.
He has described that 2010 run as a means to raise awareness about California"s requirement of a two-thirds majority to pass a budget or tax
