Fran Drescher Runs For The US Senate?



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As Goernor Patterson is legally blind, Fran Drescher's nasally voice -- Queens accented, if you will -- might disqualify her as a contender. New York's prestigious Senate seats are no stranger to the world of B-list celebrity on their last legs on the penultimate rung on the show-business ladder (Exaggerated cough suggesting feigned detachment). Over the years, Phil Donahue and Morgan Fairchild have mulled runs for the US Senate in New York before deciding, wisely, otherwise. Now, against the iron engine of logic, according to New York Magazine's Intelligencer, the cloyingly-voiced actress Fran Drescher -- formerly of "The Nanny (Averted Gaze)" -- wants to become "The Senator."

Doubtful!



The news comes like some stealthy villain, stealing in the night, punching The Corsair in the solar plexus with an acute understanding of Ninja pressure points. Winded, we are trying to make sense of this thusness. Apparently Drescher's ambitions to that senate Seat -- formerly held by Daniel Patrick Moynihan and RFK -- goes back to September 2007. The teevee star told US News and World Report that if Hillary won the Presidency that she was game ("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!'") Hillary didn't win, but is being appointed to the State Department, thus creating a vacuum. From NYMag:

"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 and 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.'

According to the Embassy of the United States in Hungary web site, As "U.S. Public Diplomacy Envoy":

"Ms. Drescher led hundreds of people across the pink-lit Chain Bridge in a widely-covered event highlighting breast cancer awareness. She also spoke frankly with young medical students at Semmelweiss University of the critical need for doctors to adopt a patient-centered approach in providing high-quality health care and in diagnosing and treating cancer.

She also met with leading businesswomen and media figures at a luncheon hosted by the Ambassador to encourage them pursue the cause of women’s health. In a meeting with Hungary’s Surgeon General, Drescher urged him to focus greater attention on the government’s role in cancer prevention among the Hungarian public."

Does being appointed to the largely ceremonial role as public diplomat in September by Goli Ameri, assistant secretary of state for educational and cultural affairs actually qualify someone to the US Senate? In a sense all this talk of Caroline Kennedy -- who is not much more qualified -- is bound to bring up these vanity runs, no?



(Public Diplomacy Envoy for the U.S. Department of State Fran Drescher and Ambassador Victor Ashe via, we kid you not, the US Embassy in Polad's website)