Crime | Wyclef Jean Wyclef Jean: I'm Not Giving Up My Bid He plans to make an appeal By Kate Seamons Posted Aug 22, 2010 4:10 PM CDT Copied Haitian-born singer and presidential candidate Wyclef Jean, second left, walks surrounded by security after Haiti's Electoral Council rejected his candidacy in Port-au-Prince. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa) So much for his "I respectfully accept the committee's final decision" comments from yesterday. Wyclef Jean plans to send a lawyer to a Haitian court to appeal the electoral commission's decision to keep him off the list of eligible presidential candidates. Jean told the AP today that he has a document "which shows everything is correct" and that he and his aides "feel that what is going on here has everything to do with Haitian politics." Should that not work, he'll join this list of 10 celebs whose political campaigns failed. Read These Next University does 180 on professor fired for Charlie Kirk post. The woman killed by ICE in Minneapolis was a 37-year-old mom. Mayor rejects feds' account of deadly ICE shooting. Christian author Philip Yancey admits to a long-term affair. Report an error