Steven Seagal considers running for the post of Governor of Arizona!

The actor who stares and produces mostly action movies in Hollywood, has declared his intentions to run for the office of the governor of Arizona.

 

First, he was Steven Seagal: Lawman. But Steven Seagal...statesman?

Saying that it started out as a joke between him and Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, the big-screen action hero turned reality-TV deputy says that he would "remotely consider" making a run for governor of Arizona.

"But probably I have a lot of other responsibilities that may be more important to address," the actor, whose aforementioned show chronicled his turn as a deputy in Louisiana, told Phoenix's ABC 15. (Seagal also walked the beat in the area for Steven Seagal: Lawman—The Lost Episodes, airing this month on Reelz.)

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The Under Siege star says that he thinks the No. 1 problem for the country as a whole (so maybe he's aiming for a national post?) is its "open borders"—immigration being a hot-bed issue in Arizona.

"I think that across these borders any kind of terrorism can come—and does come—and I think this is a tremendous oversight by the current administration," Seagal said. "I think that it's a crime, I think that we should really be paying attention to our borders.

"And I think Reagan once said that if you don't have security on your borders you don't have a country."

Ronald Reagan, of course, also being a B-movie star before becoming the governor of California and, ultimately, the still-revered 40th president of the United States. Arnold Schwarzeneggeralso famously served a term and a half as governor of the Golden State.

Probably running on a very different type of ticket would be Clay Aiken, who is said to be"actively considering" a run for Congress in his native North Carolina.