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will.i.am concluded his daylong tour of Virginia with gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe on Monday at the Clarendon Ballroom. He even regaled the crowd with a rendition of his song for the Black Eyed Peas, “My Humps.” But that might not have been the evening’s top musical moment. Biz Markie, who was still in town after DJ-ing Capitol File’s White House Correspondents’ Association dinner after-party Saturday, joined in as well. He sang his hit “Just a Friend,” substituting the line “They say he’s just a friend” with “Terry is a friend.” Wonder if Bill Clinton will keep up the musical theme and whip out his sax when it’s his turn to support McAuliffe today at two events in Northern Virginia?
And speaking of Obama stumpers coming back to Washington, we caught up with the co-star of will.i.am’s “Yes We Can” YouTube video, actress and singer Tatyana Ali, on Tuesday afternoon. Ali was a guest — along with James Earl Jones — at Tuesday night’s poetry, music and spoken word evening at the White House. And it sounds like once you join the Obama team, it’s hard to stop working for causes you believe in.
“There are still so many of us that started with Obama that feel that now that he’s been elected there is this sense of accomplishment like, ‘See, look what we can do,’ ” Ali said.
Someone in particular we had to ask her about was Kal Penn, the actor who recently joined the White House Office of Public Liaison. The two frequented college campuses throughout the election.
“I hope to see him tonight,” she told Yeas & Nays and informed us she would love to come back to the White House to help on issues of education, something she been working on tirelessly since starting on the campaign.
No, she hasn’t be offered a gig at the White House, but if she did, she too would have the same issue Penn did — how would the “Young and the Restless” star exit from her show?
“In the spirit of soap operas, it would have to be something dramatic. I think I’d drive off a cliff,” she joked.
