Alec Baldwin Considering Congressional Bid
After the likes of Ronald Reagan, Sonny Bono and Al Franken, Alec Baldwin's (still tentative) musings about taking up the celebrity-politician mantle carry a certain sense of dramatic inevitability. The "30 Rock" star may play a Republican on TV but leans to the left in his offscreen life.
After the likes of Ronald Reagan, Sonny Bono and Al Franken, Alec Baldwin’s (still tentative) musings about taking up the celebrity-politician mantle carry a certain sense of dramatic inevitability. The “30 Rock” star may play a Republican on TV but leans to the left in his offscreen life.
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“I’ll put it this way,” he told the magazine. “The desire is there; that’s one component. The other component is opportunity.”
A native New Yorker, Baldwin said he has been approached by an unnamed Democratic law firm who wanted him to run for governor of Ohio, and he has also considered moving to New Jersey or Connecticut to run for office. “I’d love to run against Joe Lieberman,” Baldwin said of the Independent Democratic senator who is no favorite of the liberal wing of the Democratic Party. But Baldwin dismissed the idea, saying “It’s all fantasy.”
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