Actor Alec Baldwin Criticizes Gov. Bush Over Election Reform(Jeb: I thought you left)

TBO.com ^ | 3-6-02 | Brendan Farrington

[finnman69]

Actor Alec Baldwin Criticizes Gov. Bush Over Election Reform
By Brendan Farrington Associated Press Writer
Published: Mar 6, 2002

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) - Actor Alec Baldwin was at the Capitol on Wednesday, much to the surprise of Gov. Jeb Bush.

"He had promised he would leave the country if my brother got elected," Bush said during a stop in Orlando. "Well he's back, I guess. We'll welcome him to Tallahassee."

But Baldwin disputed that he said he'd leave the country if George W. Bush were elected.

"I never made that statement, but you can tell Gov. Bush to rest assured that I'm not going to leave the country because we have to get him out of office and we have to get his brother out of office in 2004. We're not resting until we get that done."

Even if he had made the statement, Baldwin said there was still no reason to leave.

"Bush wasn't elected, he was selected - selected by five judges up in Washington who voted along party lines," Baldwin said.

Baldwin was in Tallahassee with People for the American Way to criticize Gov. Bush and Florida officials for not doing more to reform Florida's election system.

The state was the focus of the world during the 2000 presidential election when it took five weeks to declare George W. Bush the winner.

The election dispute ended when the U.S. Supreme Court stopped a recount. Many Democrats believe Al Gore would have won the election if the recount had not been stopped.

Lt. Gov. Frank Brogan got in on the discussion, saying outside the Capitol, "I haven't seen any of Alec Baldwin's work myself; I understand he's mildly talented."

[finnman69]

As first shown in FR

Baldwins Will Leave if Bush Wins
Updated 2:40 PM ET September 17, 2000

MUNICH, Germany (AP) - If George W. Bush wins the U.S. presidential election this November, he may not be the only one moving into a new house.

Kim Basinger said her husband, actor and Democratic party activist Alec Baldwin, was serious when he said he would leave the United States if the Republican wins.

"Alec is the biggest moralist that I know," she was quoted as saying in Focus magazine, which hits newsstands Monday. "He stands completely behind what he says."

Asked if she'd move with him, Basinger said: "I can very well imagine that Alec makes good on his threat. And then I'd probably have to go too."

[Euro-American Scum]

Actor Alec Baldwin was at the Capitol on Wednesday, much to the surprise of Gov. Jeb Bush.

What? Did he miss his flight to Paris?

[VRWC_minion]

Bush better watch out, Baldwin may want to stone him

Actor Suggests Stoning Hyde, Family to Death
By Scott Hogenson Conservative News Service Executive Editor, December 15, 1998

(CNS) – Hollywood actor and Bill Clinton supporter Alec Baldwin December 11 suggested on national television that people stone House Judiciary Committee Chairman Henry Hyde (R-IL) and his family to death.

In an appearance on NBC's "Late Night with Conan O'Brien" show Friday, Baldwin made his remarks in response to a question from O'Brien regarding the approval of articles of impeachment against Clinton, who
faces an impeachment vote later this week.

Baldwin prefaced his remarks by stating that he'd recently returned from a trip to Africa and said "I am thinking to myself in other countries they are laughing at us twenty four hours a day and I'm thinking to myself if we were in other countries, we would all right now, all of us together, all of us together would go down to Washington and we would stone Henry Hyde to death," said Baldwin, according to a transcript of the show by the Media Research Center, a Washington, D.C. media watchdog group.

Video of the program showed that, as he continued, Baldwin began shouting at O'Brien and the studio audience, saying "We would stone him to death! Wait! Shut up! Shut up! No shut up! I'm not finished. We would
stone Henry Hyde to death and we would go to their homes and we'd kill their wives and their children. We would kill their families," according to the transcript by MRC, the parent organization of CNS.

Neither Baldwin nor his staff were available to comment on the actor's remarks, leaving Baldwin's outburst open to interpretation.

Whether Baldwin's remarks were made in jest or were rooted in belief is not known at this time, but MRC Vice President for Research and Publications Brent Baker put the comments into a political context.

"Now, in your mind substitute the name Al Gore or Hillary Clinton for Henry Hyde and the name of a conservative for Baldwin. What kind of reaction would the media establishment be expressing?"

[rockfish59]

mildly talented!
heh, heh, heh! (homer laugh)

[Lovergirl]

And they are not gone yet why??? I want them GONE.

[vikingchick]

ping.

[lonestar]

"Bush wasn't elected, he was selected - selected by five judges up in Washington who voted along party lines," Baldwin said.

I still don't understand why the people who continue to gripe about the SC decision were quite happy with the FL SC who ignored their own state laws to favor Gore.

Oh, I forgot. It's about being a liberal.

[finnman69]

HAHAHAHA! Look at this pic of Alec Baldwin at AlecBaldwin.com. This was about 100 lbs ago.

Too bad she left ya Alec! Hahahahahahaa!
Kim Basinger Seeks Divorce From Alec Baldwin LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - One of Hollywood's most celebrated couples, Oscar-winning actress Kim Basinger and actor Alec Baldwin, have filed for divorce after seven years of marriage, Basinger's spokeswoman said on Friday.

Publicist Annette Wolf said the couple were citing irreconcilable differences as the reason for the split.

Basinger, 47, and Baldwin, 42, were married Aug. 19, 1993, after meeting on the set of the romantic comedy, ``The Marrying Man,'' in 1991. They separated on Dec. 5, according to documents filed in Los Angeles Superior Court.

Basinger, a former model who won an Oscar for her performance as a call girl in 1997's ``L.A. Confidential,'' is living in Los Angeles with the couple's five-year-old daughter, Ireland, Wolf said.

Baldwin, at work on a film on the East Coast, has been staying at the couple's New York residence, she said.

This is the second divorce for Basinger, who married make-up artist Ron Britton in 1980. They divorced in 1989.

Basinger and Baldwin were the subjects of a couple of highly-publicized court battles, including a 1993 lawsuit against the actress by producers of the film ``Boxing Helena'' over her decision to pull out of the leading role.

Baldwin was ordered to pay $4,500 to a celebrity photographer after he allegedly punched the man in eye for stalking the couple after Ireland was born and left the hospital.

[finnman69]

I'M A FAT SLOB!

[sweet_diane]

Alec who??
::yawn::

[summer]

LOL!!!! Thanks so much for the ping on this! :)

[summer]

Re your post #6 - I agree. And, DU is already complaining about Jeb's 2008 preidential run! LOL...

[maxwell]

Bwahaha... I like Lt. Gov. Frank Brogan got in on the discussion, saying outside the Capitol, "I haven't seen any of Alec Baldwin's work myself; I understand he's mildly talented."

[pabianice]

Wow. The incomprehensible from the unemployable. Bush must be devastated.

[finnman69]

The incomprehensible from the unemployable.

Fabulous line. LOL

[Anoy11_]

would i be wrong to call alec an idiot?

[ZULU]

Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of LIBERALS, the Shadow knows.

Alec Baldwin = Lamont Cranston, NOT.

[Wphile]

No. He is an idiot. All the stupid Hollywood types have no business in politics. They have no concept of real life - how can someone who makes $20 million for 3 months work have any idea about real life?

I can't stand any of them but Alec does take the cake. He is a total idiot!!!

[Chemist_Geek]

That is putting it mildly. The only roles he seems to play are jerks (to be clean about it) and I don't he really has to act to do that.

After The Hunt for Red October it all went downhill...

[summer]

Drudge has got this headline:

GOV. BUSH TO BALDWIN: I THOUGHT YOU WERE LEAVING THE COUNTRY...

LOL....