http://film.guardian.co.uk/lordoftherings/news/0,11016,1110567,00.htmlIn a thread ages ago, I quoted a website that stated Sean Astin was a Republican. He isn't.
'Most curiously, he has also served since 1995 as a civilian aid to the Secretary of the Army. This involves him travelling "around US installations and learning from the army what it is they are trying to do... I was raised in a liberal family and consider myself to be a Clinton Democrat. My father was shocked to see that I would agree to do that but I felt it was my responsibility. "
His service on the presidents council on Service and Civic Responsibility spurred him on to help during the recent New York blackout. "It just happened! I found myself gravitating toward the police station. It seemed like a safe place to be. Because of my work with the president's council I decided to help, I thought it would make a good story. It was like being in the middle if a comic book! Mostly I just rode with the police officers and when we'd get to an intersection that was blocked I'd back up the cars so our van could get through to get to people trapped in elevators and stuff."
With the recent election of Arnold Schwarzenegger in Los Angeles it is not hard to presume that Astin is nursing some poltical ambitions of his own. But when questioned about these, he says. "Where were you when I was in eight grade and I was running for president and I didn't even make the run off!"'