Ashley Judd meets with DSCC about Senate run
Actress Ashley Judd privately met with officials at the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee in Washington earlier this week, as she continues to weigh whether to mount a Senate run against Kentucky Sen. Mitch McConnell, according to two sources familiar with the session.
According to one person familiar with the matter, Tuesday’s meeting was Judd’s first formal one with officials at the DSCC, which coordinates strategy, recruits and fundraises on behalf of Democratic Senate candidates. DSCC officials refused to comment, saying they would not discuss candidate recruitment.
The meeting indicates that the Hollywood movie star and eighth-generation Kentuckian is still seriously weighing a political foray after spending the past several years as an outspoken environmental and liberal activist. But sources said it remains uncertain whether Judd wants to leave acting to take on the Senate minority leader, who is the Democrats’ top target in 2014 when he runs for a sixth term.
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I’ll donate heavily to any Republican who PRIMARIES Mitch McConnell.
If that Republican loses – or if no Republican challenges him then …
Yes, I will donate HEAVILY to Ashley Judd to get Mitch McConnell the fu*k out of that seat!
Political extermination of the ruling GOP class is the only solution.
HondaV65 on February 21, 2013 at 8:04 AM
Also – if Karl Rove is supporting Mitch McConnell – I’m predicting a HUGE bump for Ashley Judd.
HondaV65 on February 21, 2013 at 8:06 AM
I’m shocked that you’d support a liberal democrat. Oh wait..you voted for Obama.
wargamer6 on February 21, 2013 at 8:16 AM
Here’s hoping that Republican loses – or no Republican challenges him then …
(Remember you said HEAVILY. And it’s your $$$ that always makes the difference….)
Marcus on February 21, 2013 at 8:17 AM
An Obama voter supporting Ashley Judd – shocka!
crrr6 on February 21, 2013 at 8:19 AM
Ashley Judd or Mitch McConnell?
What difference does it make, neither one is going to help the conservative cause.
fogw on February 21, 2013 at 8:20 AM
I guess the Democrats have no fear that the State run Media will nationalize an embarrassing candidate, so why not run her?
forest on February 21, 2013 at 8:21 AM
She was born in California and her primary residence in is Tennessee.
If she’s an “eighth-generation Kentuckian” just because she lived in Kentucky for a few years as a kid, then Barry Obama is a “second-generation Indonesian” by the same standard.
AZCoyote on February 21, 2013 at 8:30 AM
Well Ashley Judd is not liar like Mitch McConnell. Judd is honest about the fact that she’s a screaming fanatical liberal. McConnell on the other hand is a liberal masquerading as a conservative.
And you guys vote for that? You’re idiots.
When the GOP cleans up it’s act I’ll return to supporting the GOP on all tickets up and down the ballot. Until that occurs gentlemen and gentle ladies – we are simply playing with ourselves by voting for Repubicans.
HondaV65 on February 21, 2013 at 8:39 AM
That’s exactly right and, unlike McConnell – Ashley Judd won’t HURT the conservative cause.
HondaV65 on February 21, 2013 at 8:40 AM
I think you mean “playing ourselves.”
JackForce on February 21, 2013 at 8:45 AM
“Norma Jean & Marilyn”
Look it up. That is all.
BigGator5 on February 21, 2013 at 8:51 AM
Kentuckians are not stupid, as a rule. If Judd runs, McConnell is re-elected. It is that simple.
As far as cranky HotGas commenters go, rhetoric and hyperbole are tools of the trade around here. Just saying.
platypus on February 21, 2013 at 8:53 AM
An Obama voter, who’s just declared he’d donate to Ashley Judd, has the gall to call others idiots?I think Daily Kos is more your speed.
changer1701 on February 21, 2013 at 9:30 AM