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> August 12, 1999 AP
> Actor Warren Beatty Weighs Run for Presidency
>
> By RICHARD L. BERKE
>
> Warren Beatty, who played a senator crazy enough to speak the truth in
> "Bulworth," said Wednesday that he was considering running for president
> in 2000.
>
> Beatty, who has been active in the Democratic Party for years, made it
> clear that he was displeased with Vice President Al Gore and former Sen.
> Bill Bradley, the current candidates for the party's nomination.
>
> "It's no secret that I am a liberal Democrat," Beatty said in a telephone
> interview from his home in Los Angeles. "I have some very strong
> feelings, the most important of which at the moment is campaign finance
> reform because its tentacles reach into every other issue. I fear we're
> getting closer to a plutocracy than we want to, and I believe that deep
> down the people want to do something about that."
>
> Hinting that he would position himself as a liberal alternative or even
> run as an independent, Beatty acknowledged that he has had discussions
> with liberals who have helped Jesse Jackson in past campaigns. They
> include Steve Cobble, a former political director for Jackson's National
> Rainbow Coalition, and Robert Borosage, who has worked for progressive
> advocacy groups.
>
> He also has spoken with Ellen Miller, who heads Public Campaign, a
> Washington organization that has called for reforms in the campaign
> finance system. "He's thinking about this very seriously," Ms. Miller
> said in an interview. "He's thought a lot about it in the last few weeks.
> There's a hunger out there for a nonpolitician. And he is increasingly
> angered by the choice of candidates."
>
> Beatty emphasized that he did not consider himself the best candidate,
> but he did not seem ready to rule himself out. "There certainly should be
> someone better," he said. "That's not to say that I don't have very
> strong feelings on a lot of things that aren't being spoken."
>
> Beatty suggested that he had been approached about running. "It's kind of
> an awkward thing," he said. "I don't think anybody should be in a
> position of having to say, 'Please don't say things like this to me.' I
> want to be very respectful of the people who have made the suggestion to
> me."
>
> He also said that people should not question his commitment to the issues
> or his understanding of politics, saying, "I've been active in politics
> for 35 years."
>
> Beatty said he would not respond when asked whether he had been
> approached by representatives of Gov. Jesse Ventura of Minnesota to run
> for president on Ventura's Reform Party ticket. Asked what ticket Beatty
> wants to run on, Ms. Miller said, "It could be Democratic, Reform Party
> or independent."
>
> Throughout two interviews Wednesday, Beatty was skittish about discussing
> his intentions, but resisted several opportunities to dispute that he had
> designs on the White House. "If I said to you, 'This is something that I
> would be considering,"' he said, "then your headline is, 'It's something
> I would be considering."'
>
> Arianna Huffington, a syndicated columnist, raised the notion of Beatty's
> candidacy in a column that was published on Tuesday. She quoted a close
> friend of the actor, former Sen. Gary Hart of Colorado, as saying, "I
> have a notion that Warren could dramatize politics in a way that hack
> politicians never could."
>
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