Fran Drescher: Senate Seat Should Be Mine

According to New York magazine, "The Nanny" star Fran Drescher wants Hillary Clinton's Senate seat:

Fran Drescher wants to replace Hillary Clinton in the Senate. She says she's qualified. "I've just been given the appointment of U.S. diplomat," she said at a party for Le Cirque: A Table in Heaven at that restaurant on December 3. "My title is public diplomacy envoy for women's health issues, and I just got back from a four-country European tour of duty. I believe next I'll be sent to the Middle East." ... What else makes her a good candidate? "I'm an authentic and honest person," she said. "And I think Capitol Hill needs more of that."

Mediabistro adds that "Drescher has considered her run before but has never quite made the leap." In fact, US News & World Report quotes her voicing her interest way back in 2007:

Her activism began grimly, when she was diagnosed with uterine cancer. ... Along the way, she says she won first lady Laura Bush's help and was rewarded with a nomination to be a special U.S. envoy on women's health issues. Her appointment is stuck in the usual bureaucracy, but she swears there are no skeletons in her closet. "I'm a good girl, I am," she says. Her further political goal: being a New York senator. "If Hillary wins," she tells us of Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Hillary Clinton, "I want that seat!"

Comments

[Simpletruthiness]

hard to make blithe comments when most of us have been cheering for Franken oh and California elected AHNOOLD.

[bandillero]

Based on similarity of crazed laughter, I think she has what it takes to replace HRC

[tzbar]

She will be GREAT!!! She knows how to clean house and babysit the old ones....Le­t's not forget England (she worked for one) and knows how to deal with them....

[DontJustFollow]

I think that seat has already been promised to Al Franken if the Minnesota thing doesn't work out.

I think the seat should go to the one with the most years on a hit show. Why not let Jerry Springer do a 2 hour special with dancing, stand-up, eating living insects, and then let the public deside with a cell phone vote? Who ever paid the least taxes or voted the fewest time in the past 10 years decides the tie breaker

[jdh45]

We could get her and Palin to mud wrestle!!!!

[Myshkin57]

Is Gary Coleman jockeying for position too? Geez. Paterson had better use his brain and pick somebody qualified or it's going to be bad for the Democratic party.

[ssgman]

I haven't heard about GC but I heard "Joe the Hitman" was vying for a spot.

[walk0nwalls]

Creating the ultimate "Nanny" state

SHOOT ME NOW

[jimmyjones22]

She's great, but her laugh is somewhere between absoluely adorable and unimaginitively irritating.

[GravitonX]

I hear Angelina is eyeing the spot. Just kidding.

[jalowe1957]

Fran Drescher for U.S. Senator? It's a great idea -- that is, if you're into menopausal celebutantes.

[Pupster]

Sexist much?

[xmw]

Is this seat a free for all now???

[doctorwang]

I've heard, from a semi-reliable source, that in order to raise revenue for NY during the economic crisis that Paterson is considering selling Lotto tickets with Hillary's vacated seat being the prize.

[Pupster]

Yes, if you are asking can anyone put their name in for consideration. We do still live in a democracy, right?

[xmw]

Oh I don't know....is that what the Bush Administration has alled us the last eight years.

[jaielaw]

I'm hereby officially throwing my hat into the ring. Hear that Paterson?

[edwarvir]

Frannie I love you. You are a Flushing. Queens NY
girl but Hillary is going to need her seat. So no
can do.

[thegreatgiginthesky]

Oh man can you imagine a filibuster by Fran Drescher?

[Egalitare]

You have to admit it: the debates with Giuliani would be POLITICAL THEATER writ large.

[newshawk14]

Although it might be just an act, the voice was like nails on a blackboard to me. I would also
like to see some of the credentials that might qualify her.