Sen. Drescher?
“I somehow turned my cancer into a cottage industry,” said actress and cancer activist Fran Drescher Tuesday at the National Press Club.
She’s also turned it into a successful lobbying effort and, who knows, maybe even a run for office.
“A lot of celebrities show up [in D.C.] once,” she said. “But not me. I kept coming and there was no getting rid of me.”
Her persistence on the issue of female cancer paid off, when she was appointed a U.S. public diplomacy envoy for the State Department. And after making it known last year that she wanted to be appointed to fill out Hillary Clinton’s Senate term, she’s still considering a run for Congress from New York. She said she’s deciding if she’s ready to be “thrown to the wolves where people are going to be actually disagreeing with me.”
Drescher will stay in town today, filming TV spots for the Ad Council that remind viewers to be better “partners” with their doctors.
