Senator Ashly Judd

[Two Thumbs]

no really

How Ashley Judd could beat Mitch McConnell in 2014 - Yahoo! News

Kentucky and national Democrats say Judd has decided to throw her hat in the ring. Here, three things she should keep in mind

It's semi-official, says Howard Fineman at The Huffington Post: "Ashley Judd, the 44-year-old actress and social activist, has told key advisers and political figures that she is planning to announce her candidacy for U.S. Senate here this spring," around the time of the Kentucky Derby. Judd "offered a not-quite-ironclad denial," but Republicans are already running against her, and assuming these sources are right, Kentucky's 2014 Senate race is about to get unusually interesting.



2. Don't be a stranger — or a carpetbagger
Judd will also have to "work overtime to convince voters she has not lost touch with her Kentucky roots," says Lauren Fox at U.S. News. That means moving back to the state where she was raised and attended college, ASAP

On the bright side, Congress has wall-wall red carpet.

 

[DaGoose]

Could be a good race to watch.......

A graduate of the University of Kentucky, where Judd can often be seen in the stands during basketball games, she also earned a master's degree from Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government, and has become an international activist on women's issues and AIDS prevention.

Celebrities And The Senate: Would Ashley Judd Stand A Chance? : It's All Politics : NPR

She clearly has the intelligence to make a good Senator. But Kentucky is a hard core Red State.

 

[rightwinger]

McConnell has been a failure politically

He may even face a challenge in the GOP primary

 

[rightwinger]

Could be a good race to watch.......

A graduate of the University of Kentucky, where Judd can often be seen in the stands during basketball games, she also earned a master's degree from Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government, and has become an international activist on women's issues and AIDS prevention.

Celebrities And The Senate: Would Ashley Judd Stand A Chance? : It's All Politics : NPR

She clearly has the intelligence to make a good Senator. But Kentucky is a hard core Red State.

Interesting

She has more qualifications than eye doctor Rand Paul

 

[Seawytch]

Could be a good race to watch.......

A graduate of the University of Kentucky, where Judd can often be seen in the stands during basketball games, she also earned a master's degree from Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government, and has become an international activist on women's issues and AIDS prevention.

Celebrities And The Senate: Would Ashley Judd Stand A Chance? : It's All Politics : NPR

She clearly has the intelligence to make a good Senator. But Kentucky is a hard core Red State.

Interesting

She has more qualifications than eye doctor Rand Paul

And at least as much as Ronald Reagan...

 

[Sarah G]

no really

How Ashley Judd could beat Mitch McConnell in 2014 - Yahoo! News

Kentucky and national Democrats say Judd has decided to throw her hat in the ring. Here, three things she should keep in mind

It's semi-official, says Howard Fineman at The Huffington Post: "Ashley Judd, the 44-year-old actress and social activist, has told key advisers and political figures that she is planning to announce her candidacy for U.S. Senate here this spring," around the time of the Kentucky Derby. Judd "offered a not-quite-ironclad denial," but Republicans are already running against her, and assuming these sources are right, Kentucky's 2014 Senate race is about to get unusually interesting.



2. Don't be a stranger — or a carpetbagger
Judd will also have to "work overtime to convince voters she has not lost touch with her Kentucky roots," says Lauren Fox at U.S. News. That means moving back to the state where she was raised and attended college, ASAP

On the bright side, Congress has wall-wall red carpet.

I remember you all laughing about Elizabeth Warren as well.

She hit the ground running.

Ashley Judd might just put that particular old man out to pasture and it couldn't be too soon.

 

[LordBrownTrout]

She may receive a little over 50 percent in louisville and lexington but she'll be landslided.

 

[Dutch]

Could be a good race to watch.......

A graduate of the University of Kentucky, where Judd can often be seen in the stands during basketball games, she also earned a master's degree from Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government, and has become an international activist on women's issues and AIDS prevention.

Celebrities And The Senate: Would Ashley Judd Stand A Chance? : It's All Politics : NPR

She clearly has the intelligence to make a good Senator. But Kentucky is a hard core Red State.

There still might be an opening here. With one interruption – Ernie Fletcher from 2003 to 2007 - Democrats have occupied the governor’s mansion since 1971.

 

[Skull Pilot]

Ashley Judd the only politician who has shown us her tits.

Now that's the campaign poster I want to see.

 

[Papageorgio]

no really

How Ashley Judd could beat Mitch McConnell in 2014 - Yahoo! News

Kentucky and national Democrats say Judd has decided to throw her hat in the ring. Here, three things she should keep in mind

It's semi-official, says Howard Fineman at The Huffington Post: "Ashley Judd, the 44-year-old actress and social activist, has told key advisers and political figures that she is planning to announce her candidacy for U.S. Senate here this spring," around the time of the Kentucky Derby. Judd "offered a not-quite-ironclad denial," but Republicans are already running against her, and assuming these sources are right, Kentucky's 2014 Senate race is about to get unusually interesting.



2. Don't be a stranger — or a carpetbagger
Judd will also have to "work overtime to convince voters she has not lost touch with her Kentucky roots," says Lauren Fox at U.S. News. That means moving back to the state where she was raised and attended college, ASAP

On the bright side, Congress has wall-wall red carpet.

I remember you all laughing about Elizabeth Warren as well.

She hit the ground running.

Ashley Judd might just put that particular old man out to pasture and it couldn't be too soon.

I'm still laughing at Elizabeth Warren, Ashley Judd might do well as a Senator, I don't agree with her politics, but I believe she is smart, and competent, unlike Warren, who I consider a partisan nut.

 

[Sarah G]

no really

How Ashley Judd could beat Mitch McConnell in 2014 - Yahoo! News

Kentucky and national Democrats say Judd has decided to throw her hat in the ring. Here, three things she should keep in mind

It's semi-official, says Howard Fineman at The Huffington Post: "Ashley Judd, the 44-year-old actress and social activist, has told key advisers and political figures that she is planning to announce her candidacy for U.S. Senate here this spring," around the time of the Kentucky Derby. Judd "offered a not-quite-ironclad denial," but Republicans are already running against her, and assuming these sources are right, Kentucky's 2014 Senate race is about to get unusually interesting.



2. Don't be a stranger — or a carpetbagger
Judd will also have to "work overtime to convince voters she has not lost touch with her Kentucky roots," says Lauren Fox at U.S. News. That means moving back to the state where she was raised and attended college, ASAP

On the bright side, Congress has wall-wall red carpet.

I remember you all laughing about Elizabeth Warren as well.

She hit the ground running.

Ashley Judd might just put that particular old man out to pasture and it couldn't be too soon.

I'm still laughing at Elizabeth Warren, Ashley Judd might do well as a Senator, I don't agree with her politics, but I believe she is smart, and competent, unlike Warren, who I consider a partisan nut.

They're both very intelligent, their opposition tho? Not really that smart.

Republicans even want to get rid of McConnell and Brown was scared to be on the same stage in a debate with Warren.

 

[clevergirl]

The lefts Sarah Palin minus the political success. There is nothing wrong with Ashley Judd's ambition- just as there was nothing wrong with Palin's. The difference exists only in how she will be treated by the left.



Ashley was born as Ashley Tyler Ciminella in Granada Hills, California. She is the daughter of Naomi Judd, a country music singer and motivational speaker, and Michael Charles Ciminella, a marketing analyst for the horseracing industry.[1][2][3] Ashley's elder half-sister, Wynonna, is also a country music singer. Her paternal grandfather was of Sicilian descent, and her paternal grandmother was a descendant of Mayflower pilgrim William Brewster.[4][5] At the time of her birth, her mother was unemployed; she did not become well known as a singer until the early 1980s. Judd's parents divorced in 1972. The following year, her mother took her back to her native Kentucky, where Judd spent the majority of her childhood.[6] She also lived in Marin County, California, for two years during grade school.

Judd attended 13 schools before college, including the Sayre School (Lexington, Kentucky), Paul G. Blazer High School (Ashland, Kentucky) and Franklin High School in Tennessee.[7] She briefly tried modeling in Japan during a school break. An alumna of the sorority Kappa Kappa Gamma at the University of Kentucky, she majored in French and minored in anthropology, art history, theater and women's studies. She spent a semester studying in France as part of her major, a move that mirrored her role as Reed in the television series Sisters. She graduated from the UK Honors Program and was nominated to Phi Beta Kappa, but did not graduate with her class.[8] Forgoing her commitment to join the Peace Corps, after college she drove to Hollywood, where she studied with well-respected acting teacher Robert Carnegie at Playhouse West. During this time, she worked as a hostess at The Ivy restaurant and lived in a Malibu rental house, which burned down in 1993. Around that time her half-sister Wynonna Judd gave her a historic farmhouse and some land in Williamson County, Tennessee, so she moved to Tennessee,

 

[Ava]

In a statement to The Huffington Post, Judd denied that she was planning on making announcements any time soon.

"I am not sure who is saying this stuff, but it is not I!" Judd said to the website. "I'd prefer as a fan of your journalism that you stay accurate and credible. We told everyone who called us yesterday these stories are fabrications."

Are Washington Democrats suddenly nervous about Ashley Judd as their standard-bearer? A Louisville newspaper is reporting that's exactly the case:

LEO Weekly has learned from multiple Democratic sources that the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee is now applying the brakes to their once all-in support of Ashley Judd as the challenger of choice against Sen. Mitch McConnell in 2014. While not ready to abandon Judd, they are now taking a serious second look at recruiting Kentucky Secretary of State Alison Lundergan Grimes.

more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/09/ashley-judd-senate-run_n_2843852.html?1362870788

 

[Sarah G]

She said she'd have an announcement one way or the other on Derby day.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Ashley Judd: Smarter than Biden and Funnier than Al Franken

 

[rightwinger]

It will be a tough campaign

 

[Ava]

It will be a tough campaign

Great find...lol

 

[DaGoose]

The lefts Sarah Palin minus the political success. There is nothing wrong with Ashley Judd's ambition- just as there was nothing wrong with Palin's. The difference exists only in how she will be treated by the left.



Ashley was born as Ashley Tyler Ciminella in Granada Hills, California. She is the daughter of Naomi Judd, a country music singer and motivational speaker, and Michael Charles Ciminella, a marketing analyst for the horseracing industry.[1][2][3] Ashley's elder half-sister, Wynonna, is also a country music singer. Her paternal grandfather was of Sicilian descent, and her paternal grandmother was a descendant of Mayflower pilgrim William Brewster.[4][5] At the time of her birth, her mother was unemployed; she did not become well known as a singer until the early 1980s. Judd's parents divorced in 1972. The following year, her mother took her back to her native Kentucky, where Judd spent the majority of her childhood.[6] She also lived in Marin County, California, for two years during grade school.

Judd attended 13 schools before college, including the Sayre School (Lexington, Kentucky), Paul G. Blazer High School (Ashland, Kentucky) and Franklin High School in Tennessee.[7] She briefly tried modeling in Japan during a school break. An alumna of the sorority Kappa Kappa Gamma at the University of Kentucky, she majored in French and minored in anthropology, art history, theater and women's studies. She spent a semester studying in France as part of her major, a move that mirrored her role as Reed in the television series Sisters. She graduated from the UK Honors Program and was nominated to Phi Beta Kappa, but did not graduate with her class.[8] Forgoing her commitment to join the Peace Corps, after college she drove to Hollywood, where she studied with well-respected acting teacher Robert Carnegie at Playhouse West. During this time, she worked as a hostess at The Ivy restaurant and lived in a Malibu rental house, which burned down in 1993. Around that time her half-sister Wynonna Judd gave her a historic farmhouse and some land in Williamson County, Tennessee, so she moved to Tennessee,

Seriously? You're trying to compare Ashley Judd to Sarah Palin????

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[BreezeWood]

While not ready to abandon Judd, they are now taking a serious second look at recruiting Kentucky Secretary of State Alison Lundergan Grimes.

Judd should not let that be a reason not to enter the primary and give it a shot anyway, she is an entertainer ... and work with Grimes if (when) she wins.

 

[Katzndogz]

Ashley Judd's big problem is that the decision will be made by voters in Kentucky, not the voters in Hollywood.