Val Kilmer wants to run New Mexico
Val Kilmer has caught the political bug. Oh joy. Late last week, the actor told the New York Post:
"There's sort of a rumor around that I'm maybe thinking about running to be governor of New Mexico? Well, it's sort of true. It's been my home 25 years. I really love my state. Poor, hardworking, decent people - Native Americans, carpenters, artists, expats mixed in with hundreds of the world's smartest physicists at Los Alamos. I've always thought of myself as functioning as a candidate for them. The media interests me and it's influenced politicians since the '60s, and I'm approaching this as a worthy serious endeavor. I would be very comfortable in my position as a representative for the people." (Source)
I'd laugh hysterically at Val's ridiculous delusions of going from a washed up actor to the head of a major governmental body if the precedent hadn't already been set in this country four times!* I suppose if you take a look at our most recent election, Val does have the main qualification it takes to get elected these days: being able to read lines someone else has written for him.
*Reagan, Ventura, Schwarzenegger . . . and I'm pretty sure Ted Kennedy was in a few snuff films before he ran for the Senate
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Celebrity Babylon
Wow, Val's really taking his next movie seriously. Set in the wooded hills of Montana, Val plays a grizzly bear on the brink of hibernation. The end. "So realistic," critics might say.
