Ashley Judd Bails on Kentucky Senate Race

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Actress Ashley Judd's next role will not be as a Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate in Kentucky.

Judd said on Wednesday she has decided not to run in 2014 to try to unseat Republican Mitch McConnell, the Senate minority leader, after considering such a candidacy for months.

"After serious and thorough contemplation, I realize that my responsibilities and energy at this time need to be focused on my family," she wrote on Twitter.

Judd and her husband, three-time Indianapolis 500 winner Dario Franchitti, announced in January that they had decided to end their 11-year marriage.

Judd, 44, considers Kentucky her home state but actually lives in neighboring Tennessee. She would have had to move to Kentucky in order to qualify as a candidate...

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[skimbell]

From a lot of what I’ve heard, it may well have been the state Democrats that ran her out.

[stillonaroll]

"After serious and thorough contemplation, I realize that my responsibilities and energy at this time need to be focused on my family," she wrote on Twitter.

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Translation: "After meeting with DemonRat election consultants, and listening to focus groups react to my radical femi-nazi views, I realize that I am utterly unelectable, and would become the DemonRat's Todd Akin."

Too bad. I would have loved for her to run.

Also, what "family" is she referring to? Didn't she decide not to "breed"?

[RikaStrom]

It cost 5M to make the movie and it only grossed 1K opening weekend? OUCH

LOL, at last it made 3M in foreign theaters. Wow, just wow.

[WhyisaTexasgirlinPA]

I never heard of that movie... lol

[MachIV]

He may end up looking like that anyway as it’s now speculated that the current Kentucky Secretary of State, Alison Grimes, may challenge McConnell. She is just as attractive as Judd and 100 times smarter than Judd. I’ll hold my nose and vote for McConnell, but I’m just saying, he’s going to have a difficult time still.