Another Nixon entering politics?
Former Sex and the City actress, other celebs might run for office
This is not a plot line from the reportedly shelved Sex and the City 3 movie: Miranda, the fictional gal gang’s resident cynic and lawyer, is running for governor of New York — or at least the actress who played her is.
Cynthia Nixon is reportedly gearing up to potentially challenge Andrew Cuomo in a Democratic primary. The conventional wisdom among Empire State political wags is that she likely won’t unseat him, but she could prove to be a Manolo stiletto in his side. Nixon has needled the governor on education issues, which could form one of her potential campaign’s planks. In a Today show interview last year, Nixon said she had been encouraged to run.
“The gap in our richest schools and our poorest schools under Gov. Cuomo is wider than it’s been before,” said Nixon, a mother of three children who have attended New York public schools. “And that’s got to stop.”
Nixon is hardly the only celebrity dipping a famous toe into political waters. Both Oprah Winfrey and Dwayne (The Rock) Johnson are rumoured presidential hopefuls.
But here are a few boldfaces actually making the leap — and aiming slightly lower than the Oval Office:
Actress Diane Neal, best known for her role as assistant district attorney Casey Novak on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, is running as an independent for a House seat in Upstate New York. “Let’s show everyone how it can be done — with empathy and reason!” she tweeted last month.
Celebs are running in two California districts. Former soap starunderwear model turned prominent Trump defender Antonio Sabato Jr. is seeking to unseat a Democrat representing the Ventura County area.
Actress Stacey Dash is seeking a seat as a Republican in the 44th district, a heavily Democratic, Hispanic-majority Los Angeles area now represented by a Democrat. But she’s filed paperwork for her campaign committee “Dash to DC” with the FEC and promised this week that she’ll debut her platform “asap.”