emarine wrote:
No bird buddy... they mock the basic intelligence of the American people... Real Americans don't elect actors for public office do we?...
Actors have run for office, some were elected, some were not.
Al Franken (Democrat) (U.S. Senator, Minnesota)
Alan Autry (Republican) (Mayor of Fresno, California)
Arnold Schwarzenegger (Republican) (Governor of California)
Ben Jones (Democrat) (U.S. Congressman, 4th District of Georgia)
Clay Aiken (Democrat) (lost congressional e******n in 2nd District of North Carolina)
Clint Eastwood (Independent) (Mayor of Carmel, California)
Cynthia Nixon (Democrat), (Primary candidate for the Democratic nomination for Governor of New York, 2018)
Fred Grandy (Republican) (U.S. Representative, Iowa)
Fred Thompson (Republican) (U.S. Senator, Tennessee and unsuccessful p**********l candidate)
George Murphy (Republican) (U.S. Senator, California)
Helen Gahagan (Democrat) (U.S. Representative, 14th District of California)
Jack Kelly (Republican) (Mayor of Huntington Beach, Calif)
Jerry Springer (Democrat) (Mayor of Cincinnati, Ohio)
Jesse Ventura (formerly Reform; currently Independence Party of Minnesota) (Governor of Minnesota)
Joe Flynn (Republican) (unsuccessful candidate for the Ohio Senate, 1950)
John Davis Lodge (Republican) (Governor of Connecticut)
Melissa Gilbert (Democrat) (won party nomination for Michigan Congressional seat but dropped out for medical reasons)
Nancy Kulp (Democrat) (unsuccessful nominee for U.S. House of Representatives, Pennsylvania)
Park Overall Democrat) (unsuccessful primary candidate for U.S. Senate, Tennessee)
Ralph Waite (Democrat) (unsuccessful nominee for U.S. House of Representatives)
Ronald Reagan (Republican) (Governor of California, President of the United States)
Sheila Kuehl (Democrat) (California State Senator)
Shirley Temple (Republican) (unsuccessful primary candidate for U.S. House of Representatives, California)
Sonny Bono (Republican) (U.S. Representative, 44th District of California)
Stephen Peace (Democrat) (California State Senator)
Wendell Corey (Republican), (City councilman of Santa Monica, California).