Ben & Jen pony up for gov wannabe Patrick
By Gayle Fee and Laura Raposa
Wednesday, December 21, 2005 - Updated: 12:30 AM EST
He couldn’t help John Kerry win the White House, but Hollywood political animal Ben Affleck and his bride, Jennifer Garner, have duked $500 each to Deval Patrick’s Bay State gubernatorial campaign.
The left-leaning actor — who hopped on and off the bandwagons of former presidential hopefuls Kerry, Wesley Clark and Dennis Kucinich — donated the maximum to the Demmie at the behest of his mum, Chris. Who, we hear, co-hosted a fund-raiser for the man from Milton in late October.
Sadly, Ben and Jen’s baby daughter, Violet, is too young to pony up for pols. And Mrs. Affleck, a Cambridge school teacher, hasn’t been successful strong-arming her youngest son, “Ocean’s 12” actor Casey Affleck, to pay tribute to Patrick. But a discussion over Christmas dinner is right around the corner!
Ben and Jen’s donations to the former Clinton administration official arrived earlier this month, according to Patrick’s peeps. And, BTW, Garner made her on-line donation under her new legal Alias — Jennifer Affleck. What an old fashioned gal!
Prior to taking up with his “Daredevil” co-star, Ben’s liberal love was a fixture on the fund-raising circuit with ex-fiancée, Jennifer Lopez. He was spotted at a Tinseltown time for Clark, a retired general, during the presidential primary. And he tossed Ohio congressman Dennis Kucinich $1,000 before his candidacy flamed out.
File Under: Politically Correct.
(from the Boston Herald)
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