Alec Baldwin: New York City Mayor Run Planned

[a kennedy]

Baldwin 2017?

A long time political activist, Alec Baldwin is looking at a run for Mayor of New York City, he tells the New York Times. Baldwin will "probably sit out in 2013 but run in a later election," the paper reports.

A critic of Mayor Bloomberg, especially for his overturning of term limit laws that allowed him a third term in office, Baldwin is a progressive who has spoken out on the war in Iraq, advocated for gay marriage and slammed Sarah Palin for "faux populism."

Despite all his political experience, he plans on going back to school to learn about the inner workings of government, "the reality of the city unions, of contracts, agreements, teachers, infrastructure, decentralizing, everything? And utilities, Con Ed, the M.T.A. -- how does it all work?"

Baldwin has discussed runs for various different offices; in 2009, he said that he would love to run against Connecticut Senator Joe Lieberman, and in 2011 mused about a Congressional run from his home of Long Island. In the New York Times article, he says he's been approached by activists from various other states asking him to run in their respective states, too.

A resident of the Upper West Side, he says his lofty status in Hollywood and career earnings have not changed him from the young man who grew up in Long Island.

"There are people who make a lot of money who become rich people, and then there are people who make a lot of money, but they don't think like rich people do," he told the Times. "No matter how much money they have, they are the same from their own upbringing. I would definitely put myself in the latter class."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/10/alec-baldwin-new-york-city-mayor_n_923478.html

[Historic NY]

1. Worthless ego stroking.

[demosincebirth]

2. Yup.

[Sheepshank]

3. Just heard on the radio today that he's likely to up against Kelsey Grammer then n/t

[JanMichael]

4. His ads for that shit credit card company sealed my hatred for him.

I just have to say fuck off to him the pretentious have-assed fat fuck of an actor proclaiming to be a "liberal". I'm sick of poseurs. Talk talk talk, no action, all cattle, no hat, no pants.

Off to Paris you go! <spit>

Fuck off, fuck face.

[a kennedy]

7. and I kinda liked that ad....

......

[JanMichael]

8. You are entertained by a predatory company ad? Wow. Shiny objects? nt.

[a kennedy]

5. Oh my....didn't think this would cause such an uproar...

Yikes.

[MrScorpio]

6. In spite of his intentions, He has too much baggage

It wouldn't be long before an opponent brings up something like the phone calls to his kid.

[ddeclue]

9. I hate to say it but: Dumb as a bag of hammers...

[JI7]

10. nope, i want Eliot Spitzer or Anthony Weiner to run instead