Democrats in Ohio say that Republican gubernatorial nominee John Kasich can't find a single steelworker to back up his claim that blue collar-workers are upset at Gov. Ted Strickland's (D) administration. Yesterday, a C-list actor helped them make their case.
Meet Chip Redden, 818,906 on IMDB's STARmeter: journeyman actor, strip club aficionado and, apparently, the best approximation of a hard-hat wearing Ohio worker Kasich's money could buy.
Here's the ad Kasich is running, entitled "400,000" (a reference to the number of jobs supposedly lost under Strickland's first term as governor of the Buckeye State):
That is one convincingly upset worker, right? Well Democrats -- and one right-wing blogger -- did some digging and found out that the "are you kidding me" guy appears to be none other than Redden, star of stage and screen (sort of). You might remember Redden from such films as Hitting The Nuts and the yet-to-be-released Diary Of Randy Rose (well, maybe not that one). According to his Facebook page, Redden is from Fairbanks, AK. (Redden did immediately respond to a request for comment on this article)
