Sean Astin - not a republican (an apology)

[Screaming Lord Byron]

http://film.guardian.co.uk/lordoftherings/news/0,11016,1110567,00.html

In a thread ages ago, I quoted a website that stated Sean Astin was a Republican. He isn't.

'Most curiously, he has also served since 1995 as a civilian aid to the Secretary of the Army. This involves him travelling "around US installations and learning from the army what it is they are trying to do... I was raised in a liberal family and consider myself to be a Clinton Democrat. My father was shocked to see that I would agree to do that but I felt it was my responsibility. "

His service on the presidents council on Service and Civic Responsibility spurred him on to help during the recent New York blackout. "It just happened! I found myself gravitating toward the police station. It seemed like a safe place to be. Because of my work with the president's council I decided to help, I thought it would make a good story. It was like being in the middle if a comic book! Mostly I just rode with the police officers and when we'd get to an intersection that was blocked I'd back up the cars so our van could get through to get to people trapped in elevators and stuff."

With the recent election of Arnold Schwarzenegger in Los Angeles it is not hard to presume that Astin is nursing some poltical ambitions of his own. But when questioned about these, he says. "Where were you when I was in eight grade and I was running for president and I didn't even make the run off!"'

[Guaranteed]

1. I met "Chunk" from "The Goonies" at UC Berkeley-

he was running for AS President. Not sure what party affiliation he was, though (although we can basically assume, at Berkeley).

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2. I thought I read that this was the case...

I'm not a huge fan of his either way, but I was pretty sure I read he was a democrat. Which is why these celebrity witch hunts are stupid whichever side of the political aisle they occur on. Look at the range of opinions just here on this board on a variety of issues. If we mark people down as friend or enemy based on their positions on one or two subjective issues then we'll find ourselves very lonely.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

3. I quoted a right-wing website with a list of (supposedly) rw celebrities.

Maybe I should e-mail them with this information. It might be fun to debunk their list.

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4. But the most important thing from his revelation...

That Gomez Adams (John Astin) is a democrat as well. That's much more of a catch than his son who played in one of the worst movies I've ever seen (Rudy).

[Algorem]

5. The Army's been paying an actor for 8 years to travel "around U.S. instal-

lations and learning from the Army what it is they are trying to do"?