Tampa- A 29-year-old porn star who lives part time in Tampa and is considering a run for the U.S. Senate in Louisiana left a scheduled interview in a huff Tuesday when she was turned away from The News Center in downtown Tampa.
Stormy Daniels, star of such adult award-winning films as "Camp Cuddly Pines Powertool Massacre," was scheduled to participate in a satellite video interview with a NBC affiliate in Baton Rouge, La., at 12:30 p.m. today from the News Channel 8 newsroom.
She parked in spaces reserved for photographers and executives of Media General, which owns The Tampa Tribune, TBO.com and WFLA, Channel 8.
Security officers told her she couldn't park there and had to park across the street in a visitors' lot. She hopped into her car and sped away. Attempts to reach her have been unsuccessful.
Daniel's supporters this year began a grassroots campaign to have her enter the race next year to unseat Louisiana Republican Sen. David Vitter, who came under fire after his telephone number turned up in records of a Washington escort service.
On her Web page, Daniels, who also has some mainstream movie credits and television roles on her resume, says she lives in Tampa, Baton Rouge and Hollywood.
Her fans have built a Draft Stormy for Senate Web site that says she has "honesty, passion and strength of character. These are the traits Louisiana needs in a senator at this crucial time. And honesty, passion and strength are what this Storm is all about."
The Web site said, "A champion of entrepreneurism, a fighter for decency and the embodiment of pure libertarianism, Stormy Daniels will be a tireless champion for the forthright values of common sense and do-it-yourself individualism."
Whether she is considered a serious candidate remains to be seen, but Daniels said she can weather the political storm.
In an interview with CNN this week, Daniels said, "Politics can't be any dirtier of a job than the one I am already in."
