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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Fran Drescher is an entertaining actress and looks good for her age, but that doesn’t make her Senatorial material. Of course, given some of the people currently there, I don’t think that she would lower the caliber of it. At least she isn’t Al Franken.
But, oh, that voice and laugh. I’d rather drive a nail through my pecker than listen to either.
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I do not want to start a flame war, but I am sick of this oligarchy class American's are pushing to be eligible for political office.
As long as you meet these requirements: 1. at least 30 years old, 2. a U.S. citizen for at least nine years at the time of election to the Senate., 3. a resident of the state one is elected to represent in the Senate. You are eligible to be a Senator.
While I could care less if Fran Drescher makes it or not. Just by going by your statement, what makes her not Senatorial material?
If we are going to hell in a hand-basket, the least we can ask for is attractive guides.
Oh my God, what’s wrong with me!
I’m thinking menage a ‘toi with her and Sara Palin.
Will NY vote for a porno bitch?
Has Fran Drescher ever held and elected office? PTA? Girl Scouts? Library aide?
The parade of people who want to be Senator amazes me - where do these people get off??? No experience, just known names. Are the citizens of New York okay with being represented by people who don’t know their way around government?
Oh, but here is the fun part . . . let Katie Couric interview her!!! Same questions she asked Governor Palin.
I did not use the Yiddish “K word” because, to my knowledge, she was not in one.
Musical actor George Murphy became California’s U. S. Senator in 1964. Reagan referred to him as his political “John the Baptist”.
What is it about actors and actresses that make them think they are qualified for political office? Just because they are “famous” doesn’t mean they are intelligent or informed enough. What government position can we get for Paris Hilton?
Missionary or doggy? That’s about all she’s qualified for.
“We need to start labling the Democrates to pigs. “
Good idea. Let’s start with Murtha.
$4600 an hour
I don’t know anything about her politics, but I do remember when Princess Di was killed, Fran Dresher came out with an absolutely scathing attack against the media — she did not mince words. I rather admire her for it.
I dont know much about her politics, but she endured a horrible personal tragedy in her life that the media covered, so i can understand her righteous resentment towards the MSM.
“I think instead she should be hired as an interrogator for captured terrorists. They’d talk after an hour or two of her asking them questions and laughing at her own jokes.”
Aw, you are a cruel man...you know, the interrogators do have to talk to each other as well. I petition on behalf of my interrogator hubby not to have to torture them with her voice! :P Maybe if she were required to submit everything in writing instead...lol
Does she really talk like that in real life though? If not, maybe she could be hired to teach the interrogators...you know, like a language school...
Now I am not familiar with everything she has done nor have I watched any interviews, etc. so maybe she can supress this voice. Or maybe the interviews are “acting”.
Jim Varney (Ernest P. Worrell) was a Shakespearean trained actor. But that isn't how most people would picture him.
Why not have Katie Couric inteview Karoline Kennedy and use the same “Palin questions”?
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/09/30/eveningnews/main4490618.shtml
Couric: Gov. Palin, almost every expert says it will take about 10 years for domestic drilling to have an impact on consumers. So isn’t the notion of “drill, baby, drill” a little misleading to people who think this will automatically lower their gas prices, and quickly?
Couric: Gov. Palin, I know you’d like to see drilling take place in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. And Sen. McCain, you oppose this. You call it, quote: “one of the most pristine and beautiful parts of the world.”
Couric: You have a 72-year-old running mate - is that kind of a risky thing to say, insinuating that Joe Biden’s been around a while?
Couric: And when it comes to establishing your worldview, I was curious, what newspapers and magazines did you regularly read before you were tapped for this to stay informed and to understand the world?
Couric: What, specifically?
Couric: Can you name a few?
Couric: What’s your position on global warming? Do you believe it’s man-made or not?
Couric: Is it man-made, though in your view?
Couric: If a 15-year-old is raped by her father, do you believe it should be illegal for her to get an abortion, and why?
Couric: But ideally, you think it should be illegal for a girl who was raped or the victim of incest to get an abortion?
Couric: Some people have credited the morning-after pill for decreasing the number of abortions. How do you feel about the morning-after pill?
Couric: And so you don’t believe in the morning-after pill?
Couric: I’m sorry, I just want to ask you again. Do you not support or do you condone or condemn the morning-after pill.
Couric: No, that’s OK, I’m just asking you.
Couric: Do you believe evolution should be taught as an accepted scientific principle or as one of several theories?
Glad to see Katie get in there and tackle the real issues of the White House. < /BARF >
Maybe these would be good questions for a Senator. That or “How does it feel to be stepping into Massachusetts’ born RFK’s seat? What’d you think of him? When you were a girl did you dream of him or his brother Jack more?”
Hillary proved you didn’t even need to be a citizen of the state. Carpet baggers can move to the state and secure the seat within a couple of months.
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