Posted on 12/09/2008 7:59:49 PM PST by Aussie Dasher
ACTRESS Fran Drescher, star of The Nanny, has thrown her hat in the ring to contest the US senate seat being left vacant by Hillary Clinton.
"Fran Drescher, actress, women's health advocate and public diplomacy envoy for the US State Department, announced that she is throwing her hat into the ring of contenders for the senate seat being vacated by Secretary of State-designate Hillary Rodham Clinton," Drescher spokesman Jordan Brown said.
Drescher, 51, is best known for her starring role in the 1990s TV comedy The Nanny, but since her diagnosis with uterine cancer, she has become a women's health advocate.
She was named a state department public envoy in September and recently toured eastern European countries to raise awareness of women's health issues.
It will be up to New York Governor David Paterson to appoint a successor for Senator Clinton, who still must be confirmed by her senate colleagues for the cabinet post.
Drescher will be up against political heavyweights Caroline Kennedy and New York Attorney-General Andrew Cuomo.
She will also be the latest in a long line of celebrities who believe they have what it takes to switch from entertainment to politics.
In the US alone, dozens of actors and other entertainers have made the move to politics.
Probably best-known of them is former president and Bedtime for Bonzo actor Ronald Reagan.
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Another shrill voice that cuts right through you.
How much for a NY seat? Think she has the buck$? What did O bamba pay in Chicago?
If I had to hear that voice, I would have to buy a completely separate hand-held battery powered variable speed drill, another complete set of bits, and some means of carrying the drill around at all times so that I could drill into whatever side of my head wasn’t being devastated by the twang of her voice. OMG, I’m sure using that voice of hers on the inmates at Club Gitmo is proscribed under some article of the Geneva convention.
Sure, why not, apparently the People of the US no longer have the desire to put qualified people in office.
Why Not?
We Already Live in a Nanny State?
A senate position is not what it used to be, eh Senator Byrd? ... Would someone please awaken Senator Byrd, change his depends, and send him home?
Screw elections. Just have an auction every two years for elected offices.
Does the left ever like to associate Republicans to chimps. We need to start labling the Democrates to pigs.
Just mute the TV. She’s at least entertaining to look at.
I’ll take The Nanny over Caroline and Andrew for $1m....David.
Caroline perpetuates the myth of peaceful Kennedys.
Andrew perpetuates the myth of effective Cuomos.
Do you know Drescher’s story? Before she was famous, she was gang raped at gunpoint by some hoods who broke into her apartment. Then uterine cancer. I have more respect for her than the Red Queen.
She probably expects a diamond ring and tiara coming with the job.
I truly appreciate FReepers with a greater sense of wit and irony than I have.
She should be White House spokesperson. That way we would be in such pain having to listen to her voice, that what she was saying wouldn’t hurt quite as much.
Oh come on you people. On her TV show she was a very decisive, smart, clever, strong woman. She’d be a great senator. (Example of Lib thinking)
I truly feel sorry for her misfortunes and admire her courage in dealing with the same.
However, she is an ignorant leftist harpy.
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