In 1986, Clint Eastwood decided he was going to run for mayor of the coastal California town where he lived, Carmel-By-The-Sea. As he told The Wall Street Journal in 2020, he did it because he felt that the current mayor wasn't doing her job right. "She used to knit during public meetings," he said.
Although he was a Republican, the ballot didn't even list party affiliations, so Eastwood ran his campaign in a non-partisan, old-fashioned way. "I drank a lot of tea and chatted with people," he said. "I told people 'I'll fix this, and I'll fix that.'" After winning, he decided there was no reason to run for re-election. Why? "You can't have the same old people in office all the time," he said.
Eastwood got involved in politics once more in 2012 at the Republican National Convention when he famously delivered a puzzling monologue about the state of our nation to an empty chair that was supposed to represent Barack Obama. But most people still didn't know much about his views on religion.
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