Elections
Celebrities Running for Office: Familiar Faces in the 2016 Races
‘Little House’ star Melissa Gilbert launches Congress bid http://t.co/yJI108hnCX pic.twitter.com/iDjpaeUYvl — FRANCE 24 (@FRANCE24) August 11, 2015
Melissa Gilbert, who played everyone’s favorite 1800s farm girl Laura Ingalls Wilder on “Little House on the Prairie,” announced this week that she’s going to run for Michigan’s 8th Congressional seat. She’ll be running as a Democrat for a seat that includes the capitol of Michigan–Lansing. Her rhetoric so far indicates that the economy will be a big issue in her campaign.
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