The idea of Brad Pitt running for New Orleans mayor has generated a lot of buzz around the city even though he isn't eligible. It also generated some laughs for the actor in a Thursday television interview. Many residents have been sporting “Brad Pitt for Mayor” T-shirts since mid-June, when a Tulane University professor and two brothers who own a New Orleans T-shirt shop joined forces to launch a quasi-campaign to convince Pitt to run. The actor founded the Make It Right organization in 2007 to build houses for low-income residents who lost their homes during Hurricane Katrina. So far more than a dozen homes have been built in the Lower 9th Ward through the Make It Right program and another eight are under construction. Pitt said on NBC's “Today” that he's noticed the shirts but laughed off the idea of running. “I don't have a chance.” He joked. Pitt is right about his chances, at least as far as the next mayoral election. To be eligible, mayoral candidates must be residents of New Orleans for at least five years before the date of the election. Josh Harvey, 31, who sells the shirts at his Storyville T-shirt shop is donating $2 to the program for every shirt sold. The shirts retail for $20, and so far, more than $2,000 has gone to Make It Right, Harvey said.
