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Beatty on the Ballot?
But not for lack of effort.
According to officials, the 62-year-old Oscar-winning star recently dispatched an emissary (described as an official-sounding "aide" in one account) to meet with key people at the California Secretary of State's office--the folks in charge of elections. A spokesperson for the office today termed the meeting purely "informational." Citing confidentiality, she declined to elaborate on precisely what information Beatty's camp was seeking.
A report in the Los Angeles Times claims the meeting was an effort by Beatty to push the Secretary of State into putting the actor on the state's March 2000 primary ballot as a Democrat. The office today denied that account. Beatty could not be reached for comment.
As it stands now, Beatty is not on the Golden State's ballot. And if he plans to make the cut by the December 30 deadline, he's got a lot of work ahead of him. For starters, he actually has to declare his candidacy. Then there are the matters of fundraising, committee formations, etc.
California would be a key battleground for Citizen Beatty. Not only is it the Hollywood player's home base, it is the biggest prize for presidential hopefuls, with a whopping 54 electoral votes up for grabs in the general election.
So far, though, the only thing the man who wrote, directed and starred in Bulworth has won is a high-profile forum to hem and haw.
Just last week at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government, Beatty declined-- again--to confirm and/or deny his candidacy.
"I have only tried to state issues," he told the students.
When pressed for a definitive answer, Beatty would only say, "I don't know."
"If I were running for president at this time, I would be a lot more organized," he added by way of response.
Beatty made headlines in August by telling The New York Times he was considering a run because he wanted the Democratic hopefuls to focus more on his pet issues--universal health care and campaign finance reform, included.
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