# What celebrity from your state do you want as governor? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [October 8, 2003, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celebrity-from-your-state-do-you-want-as-governor/206309 "2003-10-08T15:43:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2003, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celebrity-from-your-state-do-you-want-as-governor/206309/21 "2003-10-08T20:07:25Z")
I know Dave Barry’s got his eye on the presidency, but he could use the governorship as a stepping stone. ---
**Author:** ![Paranoid\_Randroid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/paranoid_randroid/32/18_2.png) [@Paranoid\_Randroid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paranoid_Randroid)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2003, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celebrity-from-your-state-do-you-want-as-governor/206309/22 "2003-10-08T20:30:28Z")
Johnny Depp for Kentucky 2003, definitely. I wonder if he’d have to move back for a while first. hmm. Anybody’s better than George Clooney, at least. No, no, no … I take that back. Muhummad Ali. Muhummad Ali in Two Thousand Three! ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2003, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celebrity-from-your-state-do-you-want-as-governor/206309/23 "2003-10-08T20:43:57Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Cheese Monster \* > \*\* > No, no, no … I take that back. Muhummad Ali. Muhummad Ali in Two Thousand Three! \*\* Too bad, though, he lives in Michigan. ---
**Author:** ![Oat1957](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Oat1957](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oat1957)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2003, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celebrity-from-your-state-do-you-want-as-governor/206309/24 "2003-10-08T22:45:12Z")
John Waters for Md. He would open some eyes. ---
**Author:** ![meathead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f07891/32.png) [@meathead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/meathead)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2003, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celebrity-from-your-state-do-you-want-as-governor/206309/25 "2003-10-08T23:33:52Z")
Mario Lemieux. Though only if he could keep owning and playing for the Penguins. ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2003, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celebrity-from-your-state-do-you-want-as-governor/206309/26 "2003-10-08T23:38:25Z")
Hrm. Jimmy Haha from Jimmy’s Chicken Shack. Richmond would **never** know what hit them. ---
**Author:** ![Ringo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/779978/32.png) [@Ringo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ringo)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2003, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celebrity-from-your-state-do-you-want-as-governor/206309/27 "2003-10-08T23:48:23Z")
Billy Gibbons for Texas. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2003, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celebrity-from-your-state-do-you-want-as-governor/206309/28 "2003-10-08T23:50:50Z")
Ladies and Gentlemen, I present the next governor of Georgia Little Richard! ---
**Author:** ![koeeoaddi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/koeeoaddi/32/408_2.png) [@koeeoaddi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/koeeoaddi)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2003, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celebrity-from-your-state-do-you-want-as-governor/206309/29 "2003-10-09T00:47:45Z")
Bill Nye the Science Guy! ---
**Author:** ![John\_Carter\_of\_Mars](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/2bfe46/32.png) [@John\_Carter\_of\_Mars](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Carter_of_Mars)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2003, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celebrity-from-your-state-do-you-want-as-governor/206309/30 "2003-10-09T01:19:46Z")
[[Courtney Cox]](http://www.atpictures.com/display.php?g=cox&img=cc052.jpg) That state of the State photo would be good for a conversation starter. Or…We could have a winner in Jimmy Buffett! I mean, with **DeVena** and me both on his bandwagon, how could he lose? ---
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2003, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celebrity-from-your-state-do-you-want-as-governor/206309/31 "2003-10-09T02:40:39Z")
Hmm…celebrities from VT…Jerry Garcia is dead…so I guess we would have to elect one of the guys from Phish. ---
**Author:** ![wolfman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a8b319/32.png) [@wolfman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfman)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2003, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celebrity-from-your-state-do-you-want-as-governor/206309/32 "2003-10-09T02:53:09Z")
> [@](#): > > John Elway for colorado. I don’t want him for governor but some people have a bit to much worship of him, it would be funny and pretty much the way politics works these days. I have to agree, We really have no celebrities. Hell the second biggest celebrity In Colorado is probably Gerald Ford. Third would probably be Hunter S. Thompson, which would clearly be the most fun governor. ---
**Author:** ![Invisible\_Chimp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/f05b48/32.png) [@Invisible\_Chimp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Invisible_Chimp)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2003, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celebrity-from-your-state-do-you-want-as-governor/206309/33 "2003-10-09T03:48:20Z")
Chuck Palahniuk for Governor of Oregon. ---
**Author:** ![Kieras](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/a87d85/32.png) [@Kieras](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kieras)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2003, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celebrity-from-your-state-do-you-want-as-governor/206309/34 "2003-10-09T04:03:12Z")
I am in Oregon and I cant think of ANY star that I would consider for any political position. ---
**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2003, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celebrity-from-your-state-do-you-want-as-governor/206309/35 "2003-10-09T04:44:55Z")
Trust me, you don’t want 'em. Tokyo’s last two governors have been celebrities, and so far we’ve had a do-nothing former comedian who ran up the city’s debts achieving nothing in return, followed by a do-little former yakuza bit-player (mostly second banana to his more famous brother) who’s spends most of his time spouting racist crap and praising ultranationalists who bomb the homes of his rivals. ---
**Author:** ![Shark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/73ab20/32.png) [@Shark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shark)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2003, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celebrity-from-your-state-do-you-want-as-governor/206309/36 "2003-10-09T13:23:03Z")
Larry Bird. Can’t you just see him coming in early to work on the budget deficit, not leaving till he’s got it all worked out? I’ll start the Hoosiers for Larry campaign right now. ---
**Author:** ![Jerrybear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/8c91f0/32.png) [@Jerrybear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jerrybear)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2003, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celebrity-from-your-state-do-you-want-as-governor/206309/37 "2003-10-09T14:10:28Z")
Michael Moore for Governor of Michigan! I think he still has a home in Michigan, even though he lives in NYC some of the time as well. John Sinclair, who was a leader of the hippie counterculture in Ann Arbor/Detroit/Michigan in general (and also, as far as I know, the only graduate of the University of Michigan-Flint to ever have a Beatle write a song about him), would also be a cool governor, but I am pretty sure he is a full time New Orleans resident these days. Oh well, maybe Louisiana can elect him! ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2003, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celebrity-from-your-state-do-you-want-as-governor/206309/38 "2003-10-09T14:21:54Z")
> [@](#): > > (and also, as far as I know, the only graduate of the University of Michigan-Flint to ever have a Beatle write a song about him), What Beatle? What song? ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2003, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celebrity-from-your-state-do-you-want-as-governor/206309/39 "2003-10-09T15:04:44Z")
Bob Dylan for Governor of Minnesota. 😃 “Um, what the hell did the Governor just say?” ---
**Author:** ![Green\_Bean](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/green_bean/32/1760_2.png) [@Green\_Bean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Bean)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2003, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celebrity-from-your-state-do-you-want-as-governor/206309/40 "2003-10-09T16:25:15Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by cuauhtemoc \* > \*\*I’d like to have seen a contest between The Boss and The Chairman Of The Board. Now the best I could hope for is Springsteen vs. Bon Jovi, since Ol’ Blue-Eyes has gone to play the big room in the sky. > > At any rate, it’s time for a change. The unique challenges facing New Jersey must be met with ideas, not empty promises. We need a governor who can stand up to the special interests and fight for the rights of the people. So in the next election, make a stand for leadership. Vote Piscopo for governor. > > _Paid for by The Committee to Elect Joe Piscopo Governor of New Joisey_ \*\* I must respectfully disagree. Our next governor should be Danny DeVito. The parallels to the movie _Twins_ would be a dream come true for the headline writers. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celebrity-from-your-state-do-you-want-as-governor/206309.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celebrity-from-your-state-do-you-want-as-governor/206309.md?page=3)