[GoforBroke]

I think that should read Cpl. or Sgt.

[Charles Henrickson]

Apparently he's a member of the Farr Right.

[sharktrager]

That's cpl, not col.

[HawkeyeLonewolf]

They guy who played a character trying to get out of a war early is voting against the guy who snuck out of the war early. :)

[buzzyboop]

hmmm. despite his eternal Section 8 antics, Klinger still gets a promotion, and to Colonel to boot?

[Dane]

(I'm assuming there is only one Jamie Farr, self employed, actor.)

I believe you are correct. SAG union rules state such. Michael Keaton's real name is Michael Douglas, and he had to change it.

[JennysCool]

He's a golf aficionado AND a snappy dresser. Odds are he's one of us.

[ScottFromSpokane]

Fundrace.com is either out-of-date or incomplete. They show my $200 check to Bush-Cheney, but not my $50 or $150 Amazon.com donations.

[GraniteStateConservative]

Oh, yeah. He's very traditional. He was (is?) in Branson, MO doing things like serving as a game show host and such. Also, from the 70s, Gordon "Big Guy" Jump (RIP) was a GOP donor, too.

[rineaux]

yes Cpl. Informative site. covers airlines, hotels, cities.
You can tell when Scarry's wife is with him. they stay at the fairmont hotel. separate rooms of course. just like the clintons.

[Charles Henrickson]

. . . . . . . . . "Col. Klinger?"

[walford]

Contributor	Candidate or PAC	Amount	Date
Farr, Jamie Mr. Bell Canyon, CA 91307 Self-Employed/Actor	REPUBLICAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE (R)	$750	08/28/03
Farr, Jamie Mr. Bell Canyon, CA 91307 Self-Employed/Actor	REPUBLICAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE (R)	$250	07/28/03
Farr, Jamie Mr. Bell Canyon, CA 91307 Self-Employed/Actor	REPUBLICAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE (R)	$250	01/22/03
Farr, Jamie Mr. Bell Canyon, CA 91307 Self-Employed/Actor	REPUBLICAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE (R)	$750	01/09/03
Farr, Jamie Mr. Bell Canyon, CA 91307 Self-Employed/Actor	REPUBLICAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE (R)	$300	06/25/02
FARR, JAMIE SHERMAN OAKS, CA 91403 ACTOR	CAMPBELL, TOM (R) Senate - CA CAMPBELL FOR SENATE	$250	09/30/00
FARR, JAMIE BELL CANYON, CA 91307 ACTOR	REPUBLICAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE (R)	$250	07/06/00
FARR, JAMIE SHERMAN OAKS, CA 91403 FREE LANCE ACTOR	ABRAHAM, SPENCER SENATOR (R) Senate - MI ABRAHAM SENATE 2000	$250	01/05/97
FARR, JAMIE BELL CANYON, CA 91307 ACTOR	PRESIDENT'S DINNER/AKA 1990 REPUBLICAN SENATE-HOUSE DINNER COMMITTEE (R)	$250	06/04/90
FARR, JAMIE BELL CANYON, CA 91307 ACTOR	NATIONAL SECURITY POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE	$500	09/07/88
Data Provided by the Federal Election Commission as of 8/23/04 -- 10,682,012 records

[SoCalPol]

Jamie Farr

Saw him in person here in San Diego at a Reagan rally 1988

[Fiddlstix]

BTTT

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Not only was he war hero (being unit clerk gives you access to a typewriter and official forms, after all), I believe he's of Arab (Lebanese?) descent.

[mgobluegop]

One this that I did that I found to be very interesting was to go to http://www.opensecrets.org and do a search by occupation. The "actor" one is fun to look at.

[RightWingAtheist]

Yup, Jamie Farr is a conservative Republican; he even appeared in the audience for Limbaugh's TV show. He's also a real-life Korean war vet (the only MASH cast member to do so), a long-time spokesman for the Arab-American community (he comes from an Orthodox Christian family of Syrian and Lebanese descent), and has contributed most of his spare time to charity and philanthropic work (golf and otherwise). I wonder if Mike Farrell and Alan Alda still talk to him.

TRIVIA NOTE: Farr made his film debut in The Blackboard Jungle, under his real name of Jamal Farrah, alongside Sydney Poitier, Vic Morrow, and future director Paul Mazursky. He played Santini, the Italian student whom everyone mocked for not knowing English.