11 Celebrities Who Should Run for President

8. David Simon — 5 points

David Simon was just 31 when his career-making and influential nonfiction book Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets was published. By then he’d already been a Baltimore newspaper reporter for nine years, but his life abruptly and permanently changed when Homicide was adapted into an award-winning TV drama. His subsequent project, The Wire, is often listed as one of a shortlist of best television shows ever made. With Treme and Show Me a Hero, Simon continued his advocacy for underfunded urban populations. He crusades against the War on Drugs and other discriminatory policies in a very direct way that sets him apart from most of the rest of the 11 celebrities who should run for President.