'Clueless' Stacey Dash Running for Congress
by EG
Stacey Dash, who is best known for her role in the 1995 comedy Clueless, has announced that she's running for a Congressional seat in California. Dash has worked as a conservative commentator on Fox News, and she is an outspoken supporter of Donald Trump. She has also sparked controversy over her disdain for African-American activists, which makes her decision to run in a heavily African-American district particularly puzzling.
Via Us Weekly.
Clueless alum and conservative commentator Stacey Dash has filed paperwork to run for a U.S. congressional seat in California.
The Hill reports that the outspoken Dash, 51, filed campaign documents with the Federal Election Commission under the slogan “Dash to DC” and plans to run as Republican in the November 2018 election for California’s 44th Congressional District, which comprises the cities of Compton, Watts, San Pedro and North Long Beach.
Formal statements coming. For those mocking for the district I live in...open your minds. It’s time to for me to put up or shut up and I want to serve great people.
— Stacey Dash (@REALStaceyDash) February 26, 2018
The district is currently represented by Democrat Nanette Barragan.
“Formal statements coming,” Dash tweeted on Monday, February 26. “For those mocking for the district I live in…open your minds. It’s time to for me to put up or shut up and I want to serve great people.”
The online community will pay you not to
— guccigallondon (@guccigallondon) February 10, 2018
Earlier that year, she slammed the #OscarsSoWhite boycott and said there was no need for Black History Month. Academy Awards host Chris Rock jokingly brought her out onto the stage in February 2016, calling her the Academy’s new director of its “minority outreach program.” The awkward moment elicited stunned silence from the audience and gave birth to Chrissy Teigen‘s famous cringing meme.
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