Stacey Dash Withdraws Congressional Bid: Elected Office Would Be ‘Detrimental’ to Family’s Health

Stacey Dash announced on Friday she was withdrawing her name from the California Congressional race, saying her “holding elected office would be detrimental to the health and wellbeing of my family.”

The 51-year-old Clueless actress provided a lengthy statement to Cosmopolitan announcing the end of her campaign, which lasted just over a month. “My goal was, and remains, to improve the lives of people who have been forgotten for decades by the Democratic Party,” she wrote. “At this point, I believe that the overall bitterness surrounding our political process, participating in the rigors of campaigning, and holding elected office would be detrimental to the health and wellbeing of my family.”

The move to withdraw her bid arrived weeks after an interview she provided to MSNBC’s Ari Melber went viral. In it, she appeared aloof on a variety of issues, and said she couldn’t judge “every person in the Neo-Nazi party.”

Dash has faced consistent backlash for her political ideologies, including when she endorsed President Donald Trump along the 2016 campaign trail. She’s never held elected office, and this was her first run for a position in government.

“My political positions have often been labeled as controversial,” she wrote in her statement, “but the real controversy is how decades of government corruption and political disempowerment have created a system where skyrocketing home prices, dirty needles in the streets, and long bus trips to other districts for jobs are somehow considered acceptable by the government officials representing the 44th District.”

Instead of running for California’s Congressional seat, Dash ended her statement by claiming her next move is to go “where I feel God is leading me.”

Looks like we’ll be seeing her in the Trump administration any day now.

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