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WHAT KIND OF WORK I DO: Professional Filmmaker and writer in Hollywood, USA.
FIRST POLITICAL CAMPAIGN I TOOK PART IN: I remember my cousins buying Goldwater Creme Soda in bottles in 1964 and pouring it down the gutter for publicity; At my elementary school I helped Hazel Hudson, a one woman liberal neighborhood activist dynamo and mother to one of friends - hand out 60s cool Eugene McCarthy for Prez. vinyl flower stickers for the 1968 California Primary. They were very popular at my grade school. Then there was no Moveon.org, there was Hazel! What a cool lady.
KOOKY FACTOID: My middle name is Delano! After FDR! Wooo-who!
POLITICAL AFFILIATION: Lifelong Democrat! Only I didn't vote for Carter and I didn't vote for Mondale when they ran. My Greek mother's side of the family are what they call Roosevelt democrats. Her Greek mother received free USA citizenship when FDR died as a thank you to America. My Scottish Father is a conservative independent, who flirted with many libertarian candidates and loved it when Jesse Jackson ran in 1976! Politics was always discussed all the time in our family. But neither my mom or dad ever tried to force a view on us. Yes it's true: My father the doctor worked on the autopsy of Robert Kennedy when he was assassinated in 1968.
MOST UNDER RATED DEMOCRATIC WHOSE NAME SHOULD BE A HOUSEHOLD NAME: The late great democratic Texas activist Sissy Farenthold, whose name was placed in nomination in 1972 for vice president and she got the most votes next to nominee Eagleton: 405! The most a woman ever got until Ferraro.
WHAT KIND OF DEMOCRAT ARE YOU? I guess they call us Blue Dog Dems now. I'm a FDR/New Deal Democrat, brought up on those values, and I truly love and admire Lyndon Baines Johnson, the last new deal democratic president (Note: JFK was not from the Roosevelt wing of the party).
I like my candidates to be street fighters, not fussy, fuzzy, or "soft" in drive and beliefs. I'm not impressed with Ivy League candidates, especially when their impressed with themselves. I like underdogs. I think its interesting that last three dems to make it to the WH are all southern "blue dog" dems.
DEMOCRATIC PARTY CHAIRMEN I LIKE A LOT: Larry O'Brien, 1968, 1972, Bob Strauss, 1976, Jean Westwood, briefly 1972 (McGovern's dame!), and Ron Brown, 1992. GOP party chairman I thought was very interesting: Anne Armstrong, 1976. MOST INFLUENTIAL PARTY CHAIRMAN EVER: GOP leader Will H. Hays, 1918 - 1920, President of the Motion Picture Assn of America, 1920 - 1945. He was the man who shaped American culture for 25 years!
TO LEARN MORE ABOUT ME: Read my blog! It's about movies, too: www.myspace.com/hauntedworlds
Things I live by:
MY GREEK GRANDMA YAA-YA'S ADVICE ON LIFE: You are what you do, not what you say. This is the land of milk and honey, there's always an opportunity. Get to work!
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Know your friends well, know your enemies better!
MY MAMA ADVICE ON LIFE: Things are never as good as you hear they are, and never as bad. Be careful what you wish for, for it may come true!
