Posted on 01/14/2019 9:45:29 AM PST by yesthatjallen
Outgoing Ohio Gov. John Kasich is signing with a top Hollywood talent agency.
United Talent Agency (UTA) announced it had signed Kasich as one of its clients on Monday — the same day that the Republican governor, who’s considering a 2020 White House bid, was poised to leave office. Ohio Gov.-elect Mike DeWine (R) will replace him.
UTA said in a statement that it “will help [Kasich] navigate the next phase of his public and private life.”
“I’m excited to work with UTA to keep my voice active across the world and share my experiences and observations to help improve the lives of others,” Kasich, 66, said. The agency will represent Kasich across its speakers, news and broadcast, and media rights divisions, it said.
Kasich joins a star-studded lineup of celebrities, journalists and political figures repped by the top talent agency, including CNN’s Dana Bash, Jake Tapper, Anderson Cooper, Don Lemon and Jim Acosta, “Meet the Press” moderator Chuck Todd, “The View” co-host Meghan McCain, Fox News’s Bill Hemmer and Brian Kilmeade, and Norah O’Donnell and Margaret Brennan of CBS News.
UTA’s speakers division lists clients such as rapper Pitbull, former Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas), former Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and actor Terry Crews.
“It is an incredible honor to represent one of the nation’s most unifying and inspiring political voices,” UTA co-president Jay Sures said in a statement.
“We’re thrilled to work with Gov. Kasich as he looks to the future by bringing his unique experience, wisdom and perspective to an even wider array of audiences,” Sures said.
UTA has been increasing its footprint in Washington in recent years. For the past three years, it’s hosted a much-buzzed-about White House Correspondents’ Association party tied to the annual dinner in the nation’s capital.
In 2017, UTA made headlines when it canceled its annual Academy Awards party, instead opting to donate money to the American Civil Liberties Union and the International Rescue Committee. The move, which UTA’s CEO said at the time was to “express the creative community’s growing concern with anti-immigrant sentiment in the United States,” came after President Trump had signed an executive order temporarily barring citizens and refugees from seven predominantly Muslim countries from entering the United States.
Hilarious! Even Hollywood can’t make someone with the excitement factor of cold oatmeal into a star.
“Outgoing Ohio Gov. John Kasich is signing with a top Hollywood talent agency.”
He will go into central casting pool for whenever they need someone to play an asshole.
CNN has already hired Mia Love and CBS is in talks with Flake.
Kasich has already had a show with FNC.
Who is left? NBC and ABC.
LOL!!!
Ling Chow for President
Kasick can be the new Subway sandwich pervert.
They will need to start by teaching Kasich basic table manners.
Looks like he’s eating that hoagie in installments.
That’s a huge sandwich or is it just closer to the camera? Would last me for a week.
Anyway, Kasich got overridden by the Ohio legislature on gun control going out the door, so that’s good. He is such a preachy smarmy prig.
“It is an incredible honor to represent one of the nation’s most unifying and inspiring political voices,” UTA co-president Jay Sures said in a statement.
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Kasich has certainly unified FReepers - we uniformly hate his effing guts.
One day I will sign up for TCM Backlot.
Used to think Mr. Kasich was a pretty good guy,but that opinion has changed (he rather changed it for me) & now I don’t pay much attention to anything he has to say. Only way I’d ever vote for him is if he were running for the position of cleaning House or Senate toilets, & even then that’s only a “maybe”.
Political whores are not always female, though with k-sick, it is difficult to tell
He did a good job when he used to fill in for O’Reilly. Peter Principle kicked in when he was Gov.
Flagg had a higher IQ than the SOM, the Son Of a Mailman...
Kasich joins a star-studded lineup of celebrities, journalists and political figures repped by the top talent agency, including CNN’s Dana Bash, Jake Tapper, Anderson Cooper, Don Lemon and Jim Acosta, “Meet the Press” moderator Chuck Todd, “The View” co-host Meghan McCain, Fox News’s Bill Hemmer and Brian Kilmeade, and Norah O’Donnell and Margaret Brennan of CBS News.
A No-Talent agency would have been more appropriate.
He used to sub for O’Reilly and I used to like him but he then went full ‘tard.
Well, if there ever was a guy who needed some talent, it’s Kasich.
Wonder what the Buckeyes ever saw in him?
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