Willie Nelson endorsed Ross Perot in 1992.
Funny side story to that one (tell me if this sounds familiar).
Perot picked up a ton of celebrity endorsements.
One was from Willie Nelson, who was outside a Perot rally and saying nice things about Perot. Ross went ballistic when talking to his consultants about this. "You know who Willie Nelson represents? Tax cheats and dope smokers!" One of his advisers said, "Ross, if you eliminate people who have smoked dope, you don't have enough votes left to get elected." Perot wanted Willie forcibly removed, and his advisers actually had to tell him, "If you do this, it will prove the exception to the rule that there's no such thing as bad publicity."
The second case involved actress Katherine Hepburn, who wrote a letter ON HER OWN to a number of supporters full of ridiculous advice on how the campaign was failing. It was an ill-informed nonsensical opinion by a political amateur, but Perot treated it as the most important thing since the Wright Brothers invented flying. One adviser later mused, "He'd disdain professional consultants who had won races when they told him to do something, but if something came to him from a famous person who didn't know what they were talking about, he'd treat it like an ex cathedra statement from the pope."
Does this sound like any billionaire politicians you might have heard of?????
