Posted on 12/09/2008 7:59:49 PM PST by Aussie Dasher
ACTRESS Fran Drescher, star of The Nanny, has thrown her hat in the ring to contest the US senate seat being left vacant by Hillary Clinton.
"Fran Drescher, actress, women's health advocate and public diplomacy envoy for the US State Department, announced that she is throwing her hat into the ring of contenders for the senate seat being vacated by Secretary of State-designate Hillary Rodham Clinton," Drescher spokesman Jordan Brown said.
Drescher, 51, is best known for her starring role in the 1990s TV comedy The Nanny, but since her diagnosis with uterine cancer, she has become a women's health advocate.
She was named a state department public envoy in September and recently toured eastern European countries to raise awareness of women's health issues.
It will be up to New York Governor David Paterson to appoint a successor for Senator Clinton, who still must be confirmed by her senate colleagues for the cabinet post.
Drescher will be up against political heavyweights Caroline Kennedy and New York Attorney-General Andrew Cuomo.
She will also be the latest in a long line of celebrities who believe they have what it takes to switch from entertainment to politics.
In the US alone, dozens of actors and other entertainers have made the move to politics.
Probably best-known of them is former president and Bedtime for Bonzo actor Ronald Reagan.
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Another shrill voice that cuts right through you.
How much for a NY seat? Think she has the buck$? What did O bamba pay in Chicago?
If I had to hear that voice, I would have to buy a completely separate hand-held battery powered variable speed drill, another complete set of bits, and some means of carrying the drill around at all times so that I could drill into whatever side of my head wasn’t being devastated by the twang of her voice. OMG, I’m sure using that voice of hers on the inmates at Club Gitmo is proscribed under some article of the Geneva convention.
Sure, why not, apparently the People of the US no longer have the desire to put qualified people in office.
Why Not?
We Already Live in a Nanny State?
A senate position is not what it used to be, eh Senator Byrd? ... Would someone please awaken Senator Byrd, change his depends, and send him home?
Screw elections. Just have an auction every two years for elected offices.
Does the left ever like to associate Republicans to chimps. We need to start labling the Democrates to pigs.
Just mute the TV. She’s at least entertaining to look at.
I’ll take The Nanny over Caroline and Andrew for $1m....David.
Caroline perpetuates the myth of peaceful Kennedys.
Andrew perpetuates the myth of effective Cuomos.
Do you know Drescher’s story? Before she was famous, she was gang raped at gunpoint by some hoods who broke into her apartment. Then uterine cancer. I have more respect for her than the Red Queen.
She probably expects a diamond ring and tiara coming with the job.
I truly appreciate FReepers with a greater sense of wit and irony than I have.
She should be White House spokesperson. That way we would be in such pain having to listen to her voice, that what she was saying wouldn’t hurt quite as much.
Oh come on you people. On her TV show she was a very decisive, smart, clever, strong woman. She’d be a great senator. (Example of Lib thinking)
I truly feel sorry for her misfortunes and admire her courage in dealing with the same.
However, she is an ignorant leftist harpy.
Yes, but it would be funny to see a cat fight between her and Babs Boxer. My money’s on the nanny.
"Ah'd haff sexial relayshuns wif thet wowman..."
Someone told me she couldn't do any worse and then suggested we may as well have the Geico Lizard as President. Sadly he is not a natural-born citizen. But he'd make an excellent Governor of Illinois or Senator for Minnesota.
She'd have CSPAN viewers hitting the old mute botton.
I actually liked her as a character the few times I saw her show and I’m aware she’s pretty popular. I have nothing against her one way or another....except that voice. It’s like Gilbert Gottfried cubed.
Yeah, that's SOME heavyweight. A Kennedy who's dad was once President and who's brother killed a woman and escaped prison and kept his own political career viable for a lifetime.
I always thought that Cankles Rodham was the most annoying women in politics, but I stand corrected. Cankles might be where boners go to die, but Fran Drescher might be the face that launched a thousand Viagra prescriptions.
Meant to say her father’s brother...
And while popular lore shows JFk, RFK, and MLK and 3 brothers, the Kennedys tapped MLK’s phones.
And I say let Fran Drescher in. That voice would grate on the Senate’s ears and I would be glad for that. Ms. Nanny Goes To Washington. Imagine the fillibuster?
Before Ronald Reagan, John Wilkes Booth was probably the most famous actor to make a move on politics.
I used to like Fran Drescher when sh was doin ‘The Nanny’, but her considering a Senate seat as a fallback job from her dud of a comeback series, is just mindless. But in a way, I’d like to see her as a Senator for New York....They deserve the kind of administration she’d give them.
She can read a script better than Barack Obama, which means she’s even MORE articulate. Besides, she was in Hollywood Knights.
I’ll take an ignorant leftist harpy (with a voice that would make any GITMO prisoner confess), than have another airhead leftist Kennedy in Congress, or have another thug Cuomo leftist in any position of trust. Gov. Mario Cuomo used to deny that the Mafia existed, even during the dramatic evidence (films, tapes, photos) that came out at the Gambino/Gotti case trials. AG Cuomo is just as bad. The ABC Cuomo seems to be a nicer person - hope he stays that way.
Drescher’s slogan would be great:
“Elect a Nanny for a Nanny State”
Italy has already elected several porno actresses to parliment. This world is screwed. Pop culture reigns over reason and the nations are being looted.
Everybody wants to be a senator. Considering what a cesspool Washington DC is, I just don’t get it.
ok, ok.......after days of consideration I have decided to put my name in for the Senator.....everyone can now relax.......I got it covered. (rme) I have about as much chance as the nanny does.
It's put-on for the "Nanny" character. If you heard her speak in her "real" voice you wouldn't know who it was. geeez
Senators are legislators, they do not have “administrations.”
You have GOT to be kidding. Besides, where would the hemline be at any swearing in? Over her shoulders?
Gotta say she’d actually be better than that TOTAL drip Caroline, though. What a piece of work she is. Does ANY DEM in (or trying to be in) NY have ANYTHING GOING AT ALL??
Fran Drescher is an entertaining actress and looks good for her age, but that doesn’t make her Senatorial material. Of course, given some of the people currently there, I don’t think that she would lower the caliber of it. At least she isn’t Al Franken.
But, oh, that voice and laugh. I’d rather drive a nail through my pecker than listen to either.
Ping
I do not want to start a flame war, but I am sick of this oligarchy class American's are pushing to be eligible for political office.
As long as you meet these requirements: 1. at least 30 years old, 2. a U.S. citizen for at least nine years at the time of election to the Senate., 3. a resident of the state one is elected to represent in the Senate. You are eligible to be a Senator.
While I could care less if Fran Drescher makes it or not. Just by going by your statement, what makes her not Senatorial material?
If we are going to hell in a hand-basket, the least we can ask for is attractive guides.
Oh my God, what’s wrong with me!
I’m thinking menage a ‘toi with her and Sara Palin.
Will NY vote for a porno bitch?
Has Fran Drescher ever held and elected office? PTA? Girl Scouts? Library aide?
The parade of people who want to be Senator amazes me - where do these people get off??? No experience, just known names. Are the citizens of New York okay with being represented by people who don’t know their way around government?
Oh, but here is the fun part . . . let Katie Couric interview her!!! Same questions she asked Governor Palin.
I did not use the Yiddish “K word” because, to my knowledge, she was not in one.
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