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Athletes and politics - Kevin Johnson for Mayor!

larryallen73larryallen73 Posts: 6,067 ✭✭✭
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With Kevin Johnson announcing that he is running for mayor of Sacramento it reminds me of many other athletes who have gone into politics. Many with success and some with not. I believe Steve Sax ran for state legislature and lost. Anybody have good athletes in politics stories? I have posted a story and photo of KJ on my blog if you are interested. BLOG LINK

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  • digicatdigicat Posts: 8,551 ✭✭
    Steve Largent, Jim Bunning, Jack Kemp are a few pro-sports stars turned politicians I can think of off the top of my head.
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  • StingrayStingray Posts: 8,843 ✭✭✭
    Jessie "The Body" Ventura Gov. of MINN.
  • AkbarCloneAkbarClone Posts: 2,476 ✭✭✭
    What will be the impact regarding the market for his sports cards and memorabilia?
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  • Brian48Brian48 Posts: 2,624 ✭✭✭
    Didn't Charles Barkley at one time ran for some office somewhere?

    If including wrestlers, former WWF champion Bob Backlund and Rick Flair (believe it or not) ran for office in their respective home towns at one point.
  • stownstown Posts: 11,321 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Didn't Charles Barkley at one time ran for some office somewhere? >>



    Not yet but has indicated he will eventually run for something in Alabama.
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  • PSASAPPSASAP Posts: 2,284 ✭✭✭
    Gerald Ford was an All-American center at Michigan before he became president, Bill Bradley, the Knicks great, ran for president back in 2000.
  • Brian48Brian48 Posts: 2,624 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Gerald Ford was an All-American center at Michigan before he became president, Bill Bradley, the Knicks great, ran for president back in 2000. >>



    Bill Bradley was the one I was think of, but couldn't put a name to a face. If extending into college sports, George Bush Sr. played for Yale I believe.
  • TomGshotputTomGshotput Posts: 1,358
    Gerald Ford and Bill Bradley

    Heath Shuler and JC Watts

    Tom Osborne and Jack Kemp

    Jim Ryun
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  • storm888storm888 Posts: 11,701 ✭✭✭
    This wikipedia list VERY inadequate.

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    A
    Dave Albritton
    Alan Autry
    B
    Bill Bradley
    Henry S. Breckinridge
    Jim Bunning
    C
    James Connolly (athletics)
    D
    Terry Dehere
    F
    Jerry Fowler
    H
    Charlie Hennigan
    J
    Hayes Jones
    K
    Jack Kemp
    L
    Steve Largent
    Don Lash
    Jerry Lawler
    Tom Lingenfelter
    M
    Bob Mathias
    Ralph Metcalfe
    Wilmer Mizell
    P
    Angie Paccione
    Alan Page
    Ellen Hart Peña
    P cont.
    Richard Petty
    R
    Conrad L. Raiford
    Daniel A. Reed
    Jim Ryun
    S
    Arnold Schwarzenegger
    Frank Sundstrom
    Lynn Swann
    T
    John K. Tener
    U
    James L. Usry
    W
    J. C. Watts
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  • StingrayStingray Posts: 8,843 ✭✭✭
    What about him?? Oh wait he was not a sports person!!

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  • NickMNickM Posts: 4,895 ✭✭✭
    Not counting people already mentioned elsewhere in this thread:

    Bill Kenney (Chiefs QB) became a State Senator in MO and ran for statewide office
    Tom McMillen (Bullets forward) spent several terms in the House of Representatives
    "Big Daddy" Don Garlits (drag racer) ran for Congress during the 1990s in central FL
    Reggie Williams (Bengals LB) became a city councilman in Cincinnati
    Paul Gonzales (Olympic gold medalist in boxing) ran for L.A. city council in 2003
    Byron "Whizzer" White (college football star and NFL player) spent over 30 years on the U.S. Supreme Court
    Ben Nighthorse Campbell (Olympic gold medalist in judo) served as a member of the U.S. House and Senate from CO for almost 20 years
    Rob Scribner (L.A. Rams RB) ran for Congress about 20 years ago in the L.A. area

    Steve Sax opened a campaign committee for State Assembly in the Sacramento, CA area but did not follow through with the race after copies of his divorce papers became a local media story (his wife accused him of domestic violence).


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