When you were a volunteer for the Bush-Cheney campaign, you came in the morning; you had a supervisor who gave you a list of calls to make and a time to do it in.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I didn't do this for the President. When I had this opportunity, not only was it work, but it was something that I could do, as an actor, for the victims and their families. Something I could give back.
Before I went to jail, I was active in politics as a member of South Africa's leading organization - and I was generally busy from 7 A.M. until midnight. I never had time to sit and think.
There was a time when I was enamored of the Clintons. I knocked on doors, phone-banked and rallied during his campaign.
It's no mean calling to bring fun into the afternoons of large numbers of people. That, too, is part of my job, and I'm happy to serve when called on.
When a governor asks you to come and serve... or a president, subsequently in my life - you do so.
For eight years, I was sleeping with the president, and if that doesn't give you special access, I don't know what does!
I didn't volunteer; they asked me. I felt a duty to testify.
I was a government employee in the morning and a writer in the evening.
Call-time has renewed my faith in the need for public financing of elections. 'Call-time' is where I as the candidate, sit in a room with my 'call-time manager,' and a phone. Then I call people and ask them for money. For hours. Apparently, I'm really good at it.
So I went to George and told him I had the opportunity to become the figurehead of a government safety campaign, and he agreed to give me the week off and reschedule shooting!