A MAYORAL candidate has posted a bizarre campaign video in which he emerges from a lake in clingy wet underpants and pledges not to frequent strip clubs.

Jeffrey Wagner, who is running for mayor of the US city of Minneapolis, also tells voters to "wake the f*** up" in the advertisement which has receive 211,000 views on YouTube and widespread publicity across America.

Wagner walks out of the water carrying a coffee cup and clad only in a pair of soaked underpants to where a woman waits on the shore.

He starts speaking into a camera making pledges which appear to allude to local government corruption.

"I will not take money from the developers, I will not take money from the political angle, I will not even go the strip clubs - anymore," he says.

"Wake the f*** up.

"Over a million dollars is going to be spent to become the mayor of Minneapolis, a hundred thousand dollar a year job.

"You're not the one's deciding who you vote for. The media and the money is. I'm cool with making $100,000 a year."

The woman then replenishes his coffee cup and Wagner turns and walks back into the lake.

Wagner is known for crude jokes on his Facebook page.

He is up against more than 30 candidates running for the mayoral election on November 5.

US news outlets have commented on whether it was proper for Wagner to appear in such revealing get-up.

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