An effort to draft Hollywood star and Paradise Valley resident Jeff Bridges as the Democratic Party's replacement for Sen. John Walsh on the November ballot has grown like wildfire over the weekend.
Former Livingston businesswoman Lizabeth “Libby” Pratt began the campaign to draft Bridges into the U.S. Senate race on Friday. The surge has even gotten the actor's attention.
[On the Howard Stern show Monday with his wife, Susan, Bridges said:]
“I looked down and I see this thing ‘Jeff Bridges for Senator' and I said, ‘What?' … There's a group of people that have called in and want me to run for senator of Montana, like 1,000 people, and I said, ‘Sue?'” Bridges said. “And she looks at me and says, ‘Don't even think about it.'”