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It’s Official: Ben Affleck Will Not Run For Senate

Biggbear51 Wrote: Dec 26, 2012 1:55 PM

Though young Affleck is a good actor and quite popular in the movies right now, he not not Senatorial material by any stretch. This I base n hearing him speak. He really is mostly unaware of what we are about, who our system works and what needs to take place beside sitting for cash! Ben Good on you for considering the position. However you are not viable enough even for the Democrat seat.

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It’s Official: Ben Affleck Will Not Run For Senate

“I love Massachusetts and our political process,” actor/director Ben Affleck wrote on his Facebook page two days ago, “but I am not running for office:”

Ben Affleck is taking his name off the list of possible candidates for U.S. Sen. John Kerry's seat, which would be open if the Democratic senator from Massachusetts is confirmed as secretary of state.

Affleck says in a Monday posting on his Facebook page that while he loves the political process, he will not be running for public office.

Speculation about the Cambridge, Mass., native rose slightly when he did not completely rule out...

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