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UPDATE, 5:42 PM: “Let me tell you something, the Eva Longoria who worked at Wendy’s flipping burgers, she needed a tax break but the Eva Longoria who works on movie sets does not,” the former Desperate Housewives star told the delegates in Charlotte to big applause tonight. Besides hitting out at Barack Obama’s GOP rival Mitt Romney and his policies, the campaign co-chair used her just over six minute speech to stress employment opportunity issues. “As I travel the country for the President, I see Americans of every background fighting to succeed. They’re optimistic, they’re ambitious, they’re hardworking but they also want to know that their hard work will pay off,” Longoria said. “We’re lucky that our President understands the value of American opportunity because he’s lived it,” she added to big applause. In a poised partisan and personal biography heavy speech, the long time Obama supporter was a clear contrast, as she promised yesterday to be, to the often rambling appearance by Clint Eastwood at the GOP convention last week.
PREVIOUSLY, 5:19 PM: Eva Longoria has walked on stage at the Democratic National Convention. A co-chair of the President’s reelection campaign, the former Desperate Housewives actress has promised over the past day that she will not be pulling a Clint Eastwood during her turn in the political spotlight. “I come from a very different position than Clint Eastwood,” said the long time Obama supporter yesterday to CNN’s Piers Morgan. Eastwood’s seemingly improvised appearance as the surprise speaker during the last night of the Republican Convention was ultimately unsuccessful for both the Oscar winner and GOP nominee Mitt Romney. Longoria is expected to discuss education, Hispanic voters and small businesses during her approximately 10-minute speech. President Obama will close out the night after being introduced by Vice-President Joe Biden. It’s been quite the star-studded day so far in Charlotte for Democrats. Besides musical performances from James Taylor and Mary J. Blige, the party saw Avengers star Scarlett Johansson and Kerry Washington, who appears in the upcoming Quentin Tarantino movie Django Unchained, took the podium to talk about student loans and young adult voters.
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Former White House Associate Director of Office of Public Engagement and Harold and Kumar star Kal Penn is right now hosting a livestream online of the convention. Penn, who addressed the delegates on Tuesday, is interviewing Vice-President Biden, along with actress’ Elizabeth Banks and his former House M.D. co-star Olivia Wilde. Jessica Alba, who has been seen in the Time Warner Cable Center’s skybox with Longoria, and her husband Cash Warren are hosting a the Super-O-Rama fundraiser tonight in Charlotte after the convention ends.
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Hearing that there is a lot of over-crowding going on at that arena as they’re trying to fit too many people in there tonight and that’s not a healthy thing. Longoria spoke tonight? Wow, did anyone listen or even bother to?
Again, I am amazed you described it as “unsuccessful” and yet people are still talking about it.
If anyone upstages your candidate then that is not a success. Yes, we are all talking about Clint Eastwood but not about Mitt Romney. Major mistake on the part of the convention organizers.
Politics isn’t show biz although it may look like it on TV.
Meaning: All publicity is not good publicity.
Hmmmm…where’s all the Drudgites and Dittoheads telling us how “no one wants to hear some Elitist Hollywood actor-idiot talking politics!”
BWAHAHAHAHA!!! Thanks Clint! You’ve pretty much killed that right-wing meme!
No one wants to hear some (Left Wing) Elitist Hollywood actor-idiot talking politics. By Hollywood standards Elite and right winger doesn’t fit the buck tooth hillbilly redneck gun-totin’ bible thumpin’ racist bigot homophobic profile.
BTW, folks will be watching Clint Eastwood movies long after the rest of us have gone to the sweet bye and bye.
Too bad the Eva Longoria who’s working on a movie set is too dumb to realize that the Eva who “flipped burgers at Wendy’s” didn’t pay any federal tax to begin with – like 47% of Americans today — because her low earnings made her exempt from paying such taxes. She’s also too dumb to ask where the extra tax she’s willing to give now is going…but that’s ok. The State of California especially counts on voters like her to be happy that her tax dollars pay for high speed rail projects (with train service to booming metropolises like Gilroy, CA) and to pay for the pensions of Cal State workers who make more money in retirement than they did during their years of service to the Golden State…while unemployment throughout the country and our state is higher than it has been in years.
Not to mention that the State Board of Equalization stands ready to accept her generous donation to defray the tax burden of the below-the-line. Any chance she’ll start sharing her multi-million dollar payday with the crew?
Ms.NDLatina, there is a little thing called a PAYROLL TAX that even Wendy’s burger-flippers pay. Not to mention other state, local and federal taxes.
But, maybe you and your hero Mitt the Twit are too busy counting your dividend checks and checking your Swiss Bank Account statements to notice such little details of the Middle Class.
Ummmm…yes, everyone who earns a SALARY pays payroll tax, state tax, SDI, unemployment, SSI, FICA etc etc — and you either are a trust fund moron or someone who doesn’t look at your own paystub if you fail to realize that. The point is, the people who EARN more PAY more. And to the Wendy’s worker who had federal taxes taken out – you got a little thing called a tax refund that people who pay more into the system didn’t receive proportionate to what you did. As someone who has busted his ass since college, I’m struggling to retain “middle class” status. I make 200% the salary I made 15 years ago, live in a “bigger” home and drive a European luxury car far nicer than the one I did years ago…but ONLY take home about 63% more than I did 15 years ago, thanks to taxes. How about explaining that for “fairness” and belief in the “American Dream”?
Ms.NDLatina, perhaps you don’t realize that even hamburger flippers at Wendy’s pay a little thing called a PAYROLL TAX? Not to mention other state, local and Federal taxes.
But, maybe you and your hero Mitt the Twit are too busy counting your dividend checks and hiding your money in Swiss Bank accounts to notice such things that the Middle Class have to go through.
@NoDumbLatina:
You couldn’t be more wrong. Eva Longoria is poised, intelligent, and good at what she does. She’s articulate and she knows what she’s talking about. She’s no idiot: she earned a bachelor of science degree in nutrition and is currently working on a master’s degree in Chicano studies.
As a person, who doesn’t look to celebrities for political guidance and a former Wendy’s worker… federal taxes were taken out of my check. Again Eva can’t tell me who to vote for but I had state and federal taxes taken out of my Wendy’s check.
Eva Longoria? Really?
…and they say Clint Eastwood sounded like a moron? There should be a law forbidding actors to engage about politics. They’re just too misguided and ill-informed
“the Eva Longoria who worked at Wendy’s flipping burgers, she needed a tax break but the Eva Longoria who works on movie set does not,”
So why are so many productions leaving California for New York, New Mexico etc? I’ve lost count of how many friends have left state in the last couple of years because there are just fewer and fewer jobs here. Perhaps if “big name stars” like Eva here took a pay cut, there would be more work for the rest of us who don’t make millions for a couple week’s worth of work.
Runaway production has little to do with actors’ salaries. Productions leave California, not because the stars are earning too much money, but because the production itself is too costly without tax breaks. Production costs include rental of equipment/vehicles, hiring of temporary employees, housing of cast/crew, purchase of necessary materials for production, etc.
Tax breaks are intended to offset these costs; they are not meant to offset the costs from actors’ salaries.
Production is costly for a number of reasons – lack of tax breaks does head the list of those for film and tv projects running away from California. The cost of doing business with teamsters here is another….the list goes on and on for anyone familiar with doing budget breakdowns.
But one of the most crucial reasons costs have escalated over the past several years is because the Eva Longorias of the “above the line” show biz talk about how they begged to be taxed more heavily…while demanding salaries that have squeezed the “middle class actor” out of existence. Anyone working in this industry knows there are more “haves and have nots” in show biz than most professions, because the very actor and below the line personnel who used to make a comfortable living in town is now told they will have to work for scale as a local hire elsewhere. Would that have happened if the very “A list” who hypocritically begs to be taxed more would just take a lower salary so the “little guy” gets a little more?
You do realize that’s there’s no cap on how much you pay in taxes, right Eva? Pay 98% if it’s gonna help you sleep through the night, but don’t try to force others to pay more to our extremely, efficient government.
The point is about priorities—if the government is looking to give a tax break to people, should it be giving it to the barely-hanging-on folks of the lower and middle classes, or should it give it to the Eva Longorias and Mitt Romneys (and Barack Obamas!) of the world?
The GOP says lowering the tax rate for the wealthy will help everyone. They put this into practice during the Bush administration. The deepest recession since the 1930s followed.
I get that you don’t like Ms. Longoria for whatever reason, but the idea that in an age of big deficits and struggling families what we really need to do is shovel more tax breaks into the hands of the wealthiest Americans seems ridiculous to me.
So right. There is nothing that prevents Ms Longoria from cutting a check today. Does she know what she has opened herself up to with that stupid statement? If she does not need a tax break today, do her financials bear that out? Is she availing herself of tax breaks in any way by putting her money in a trust, taking mortgages on properties, writing off her work related expenses? Now I not only want to see Romneys returns, I would like a peek at hers too. And dont give me “But she isnt running for president”. She put the “I dont need a tax break” on the table. Can she back it up?
Since when funding our country’s government become a charity event? Sure she could give more money to the IRS but that would help very little compared to ending the Bush tax cuts for the richest Americans.
Hiding in Hollywood, if you’re going to make an argument try making a sensible one next time.
Democrat or Republican, anyone who is even slighty considering letting someone from Hollywood determine who they vote for, should have their voting privileges revoked.
You do know that Reagan was an actor, right?? You Republicans love him so much but he was an actor who acted with monkeys – pun intended.
And Clint Eastwood was Mayor. So was Sonny Bono. And, then, there’s the Gubernator.
Walter wasn’t suggesting that actors shouldn’t enter politics; he was merely suggesting that anyone who allows their vote to be influenced by a Hollywood personality should not be allowed to vote at all.
Miss Manager, if you’re waiting for a conservative to own up to his/her hypocrisy — on this or any other subject — you would be well advised to pack a lunch and bring a couple of crossword puzzle books.
Because you’ll be waiting a loooooooooooooong time…..
Mmmmmmm….Wendy’s.
Anyone else remember when this site was devoted to film and TV news instead of politics? Think I’m going to have to stop coming to this site until after the election because politics is not what I come here for and half the articles of late have been politics.
I agree that you should not come to this site, but for different reasons.
May be if the government stopped wasting tax payer money on foolish things and stop paying for companies that dont know how to be fiscually responsible then may be taxes would not have to be raised on anyone. May be if everyone who has been on walfare for more than 10 years gets a job then more taxes would be collected. May be if walfare was doing what it was meant to do and help people till the get back on their feet instead of allowing them to stay forever we would not have to raise taxes. May be if the goverment did not give back more money than one paid in taxes we would not have to raise taxes. I for one can not afford for my taxes to be raised. I am “Single” middle class and Obama has not lowered my taxes, nor will he if reelected.
Eva, you are welcome to pay more taxes, and you can certainly afford to. But I have an issue with whom the president defines as “rich” and should pay more taxes. He defines this as $200K/year for a single person, and $250K/year for a couple. That is not rich.
A comment this dumb could only come from the mouth of one of the 1%. Figures.
“We’re lucky that our President understands the value of American opportunity because he’s lived it,” she added to big applause.
Other than being a career politician, what has Mr. Obama accomplished, professionally speaking?
…crickets…
Being elected the first African-American president of the United States isn’t enough for you? I realize that your teabagger brain can’t comprehend this, but that is a BIG DEAL.
“…the Eva Longoria who works on movie sets…?” Did she make the speech to turn herself into a movie star now that “Desperate Housewives” is done? Good luck with that Eva.
Eva, why no mention of how Hollywood ships all there films to other states and other countries? What about the thousand of UNION workers here in LA who have no work because GREEDY corporations like film studios who want to save money by filming elsewhere? If people like you care so much about the “assault on women” why don’t you personally donate money to Planned Parenthood so the whole country doesn’t have to pay for late term abortions and morning after pills for careless teens? Take your politics and go back to your mansion and find a new millionaire foreign husband who will cheat on you again!
She was terrible, absolutely took the wind outOf my sails. You could audibly here the train wheels grinding to a halt when she spoke. She is absolutely beautiful, nothing more.
I don’t live in the US, so I don’t really care who wins, I was just channel surfing but Eva was brilliant. If she ever wants to run for anything in Canada, I’d vote for her. We have Wendy’s too.
Really tired of Hollywood telling us how to vote. They need to get over themselves. I have a mind of my own. Not impressed