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Ben Affleck Makes Announcement Regarding Potential Massachusetts Senate Candidacy

Dec. 25, 2012 1:47pm Christopher Santarelli

Ben Affleck Announcement on Potential Massachusetts Senate Candidacy

Ben Affleck discussing the Congo during an appearance before Congress (AP)

Those hoping to see Hollywood actor and director Ben Affleck replace Secretary of State nominee John Kerry in the U.S. Senate will not be getting their Christmas wish. The Argo director and Daredevil actor posted a message on his official Facebook page Monday announcing that he will not be running for office.

“I love Massachusetts and our political process, but I am not running for office. Right now it’s a privilege to spend my time working with Eastern Congo Initiative (ECI), supporting our veterans, drawing attention to the great many who go hungry in the U.S. everyday and using filmmaking to entertain and foster discussion about issues like our relationship to Iran.

We are about to get a great Secretary of State and there are some phenomenal candidates in Massachusetts for his Senate seat. I look forward to an amazing campaign.

Happy Holidays to All.

(Make sure to visit Feeding America & A-T Children’s Project & Paralyzed Veterans of America)”

After President Obama announced late last week that he will be replacing Secretary of State Hillary Clinton with the Senior Massachusetts Senator from Massachusetts, speculation began immediately for who will run in a special election early next session to finish Kerry’s term. Despite having a long history of Democrat representation in Washington and a deep bench of high profile progressive politicians, the Bay State elected Republican Scott Brown in a January 2010 special election to replace the late Ted Kennedy. After lossing a close reelection against Democrat Elizabeth Warren last month, political observers have speculated that Brown has strong potential to still win his way back into the Senate next session if he were to run for Kerry’s old seat. After the 2008 success of now Senator Al Franken in Minnesota, and heavy speculation regarding Kentuckian Ashley Judd running for Senate in 2014, rumors spread that Democrats were once again looking to Hollywood for representation in Washington with outspoken Democratic supporter and Bay State native Ben Affleck.

With Affleck now taking himself out of the running, potential Democratic candidates mentioned interested in replacing Kerry include 2010 Brown challenger Martha Coakley, and members of the state’s Congressional delegation such as Reps. Mike Capuano, Nikki Tsongas, and Stephen Lynch.

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Comments (23)

Seagal45
Posted on December 26, 2012 at 6:49pm
He is such a tool, can’t stand him.

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Glennda
Posted on December 26, 2012 at 11:36am
Bentime for Bonzo

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- RJJinGadsden
  Posted on December 26, 2012 at 1:04pm
  WANGO/PANTS, Let’s not forget that Ronald Reagan was elected by his FELLOW actors to be the president of SAG. He was also the Democrats choice as the Governor of California. What are Affleck’s credentials? He smokes a lot of dope and acts?
  
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overthecliff
Posted on December 26, 2012 at 10:53am
Believe me, Ben knows his rear end.

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overthecliff
Posted on December 26, 2012 at 10:48am
Just what we need a casting couch **** boy in the Senate.

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RIGHT_WHERE_IT_HURTS
Posted on December 26, 2012 at 6:16am
A talentless actor becomes a lefty politician. A different shade of useless.

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- Brerr Rabbit
  Posted on December 26, 2012 at 5:31pm
  Hollywood will struggle with the loss of such talent
  
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700P
Posted on December 25, 2012 at 10:53pm
Team America – World Police nominates, “Matt…….Damon”

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SmellyDog
Posted on December 25, 2012 at 4:00pm
I wonder if Sean Penn knows there is an opening.

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- RIGHT_WHERE_IT_HURTS
  Posted on December 26, 2012 at 6:15am
  Maybe a Bwaney opening…
  
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surf0766
Posted on December 25, 2012 at 2:53pm
His first statement will start with “But Bush…..”

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bikerdogred1
Posted on December 25, 2012 at 2:49pm
Are the people of Mass. dumb enough to go along with this,I would have to say yes,it happens when you have to many Irish in one place.Before you know it they will want to come under British control for their own well being.I have always said the Irish shouldn’t be allow to vote.Hooligans all of them.

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- jwpowers41
  Posted on December 25, 2012 at 3:09pm
  You ignorant *******
  
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- TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
  Posted on December 25, 2012 at 3:21pm
  I’m sure I speak for all Irish here laddy when I write… Póg Mo Thóin.
  
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- RJJinGadsden
  Posted on December 26, 2012 at 1:06pm
  TIME, I confess that I had to look that up, but….bwahahahahahahahaha!
  
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1776freedomofspeech
Posted on December 25, 2012 at 2:35pm
Another bad idea (notion) people (folks); brought to you by the bad idea people of America: The Democratic Party (the Nazi/Communist/Socialist Workers Party of America)

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thibx
Posted on December 25, 2012 at 2:27pm
we need someone with at least half a brain. tired of morans who live in their own box which 90% of washington is.

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Improvise.Adapt.Overcome
Posted on December 25, 2012 at 2:24pm
“After lossing a close reelection against Democrat Elizabeth Warren last month, political observers have speculated that Brown has strong potential to still win his way back into the Senate next session if he were to run for Kerry’s old seat. After the 2008 success of now Senator Al Franken in Minnesota, and heavy speculation regarding Kentuckian Ashley Judd running for Senate in 2014, rumors spread that Democrats were once again looking to Hollywood for representation in Washington with outspoken Democratic supporter and Bay State native Ben Affleck.”

They are really sleeping their way to the bottom!

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BehindBlueEyes
Posted on December 25, 2012 at 2:20pm
Good decision Ben. Congress needs qualified people not clueless bad actors.

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- termyt
  Posted on December 25, 2012 at 2:27pm
  Any idea how we find such qualified people and get them into office? I’m tired of waiting for them to pass the “Rear End or Hole in the Ground?” test.
  
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- BODYBAG
  Posted on December 25, 2012 at 2:27pm
  I’ll second that emotion.
  Its alot nicer here on the site lately now that they’ve put the hammer down on
  all the radical marxist trolls that were flooding the place before.
  
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- BODYBAG
  Posted on December 25, 2012 at 2:47pm
  @TERMYT
  Posted on December 25, 2012 at 2:27pm
  Any idea how we find such qualified people and get them into office?
  ————————————————————————-
  The HARD truth is here:
  
  The Sleeper Must Awaken
  http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2012-12-24/sleeper-must-awaken
  
  “The awful truth is that WE are responsible. We elected these people. We condone a two party system where we end up with a choice between the mediocre and the inferior. We are left to choose between the fool and the idiot—–and the men of character, the people of intellect and those focused on the health of the nation are left behind either because they will not participate or because they cannot survive the taunts and tricks of those that have no other interest besides their own ego and their own self-interests. “
  
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OUT THE REGRESSIVES
Posted on December 25, 2012 at 2:00pm
Why not Ben? You would fit in perfectly with the rest of the Big Socialist Party and BHusseinO in the Land of Dis-honesty.

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