{"id":3114,"date":"2023-01-19T09:01:44","date_gmt":"2023-01-19T09:01:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2023\/01\/19\/boy-meets-world-actor-ben-savage-running-for-congress\/"},"modified":"2023-01-19T09:01:44","modified_gmt":"2023-01-19T09:01:44","slug":"boy-meets-world-actor-ben-savage-running-for-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2023\/01\/19\/boy-meets-world-actor-ben-savage-running-for-congress\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Boy Meets World&apos; actor Ben Savage running for Congress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"byline\">\n<time itemprop=\"datePublished\" content=\"2023-01-19\" datetime=\"1674118904\" pubdate=\"\">19 January 2023<\/time>\n<\/p>\n<p>Actor Ben Savage is running for Congress.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p class=\"image-caption landscape\">Actor Ben Savage is running for Congress<\/p>\n<p>The \u2018Boy Meets World\u2019 star, 42, famed for playing Cory Matthews on the ABC sitcom, has entered the race as a Democrat for California\u2019s 30th District seat, paperwork filed with the Federal Electoral Commission (FEC) on Wednesday (18.01.23) showed.<\/p>\n<p>Ben is expected to run for US Senator Dianne Feinstein\u2019s seat, according to People.<\/p>\n<p>Three others \u2013 California Assembly member Laura Friedman, Nick Melvoin and Josh Bocanegra \u2013 have also filed paperwork with the FEC for the District 30 seat, Spectrum News\u2019 Washington DC correspondent Cassie Semyon has reported.<\/p>\n<p>Ben ran for a seat in 2022 on the West Hollywood City Council and said at the time he was entering politics as \u201cpeople have become disappointed\u201d with the \u201cdirection the city is heading\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\nHe also interned for Senator Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania while he was a student at Stanford University in 2003, according to a Rolling Stone interview that came at the same time as the 2014 premiere of the Disney Channel\u2019s \u2018Boy Meets World\u2019 spinoff \u2018Girl Meets World\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>\nBen, who played Cory in \u2018Boy Meets World\u2019 from 1993 to 2000, and in \u2018Girl Meets World\u2019 between 2014 and 2017, recently toasted his engagement with his long-term girlfriend Tessa Angermeier, 30.<\/p>\n<p>\nHe announced the news last week on Instagram by posting a photo of Tessa resting her ring-adorned hand beside his chest, and captioned the image: \u201cThe best is yet to come.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\nCongratulations rolled in on the comments section of the post from famous faces including from Danica McKellar, 48, who starred as Winnie Cooper alongside Ben\u2019s older brother Fred Savage, 64, in \u2018The Wonder Years\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>\nPage Six said Ben and Tessa have remained relatively private about their relationship since they started dating in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>\nIn 2021, Ben told Us Weekly about featuring in a \u2018Boy Meets World\u2019 reunion: \u201cI think that if the right project came along at the right time, and everyone was on board, I think it\u2019d be a lot of fun.<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cI think it\u2019s a really nice group of people, and they\u2019re a very talented group.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/celebrity\/boy-meets-world-actor-ben-savage-running-congress-1371937.html?f=rss\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>19 January 2023 Actor Ben Savage is running for Congress. Actor Ben Savage is running for Congress The \u2018Boy Meets World\u2019 star, 42, famed for playing Cory Matthews on the ABC sitcom, has entered the race as a Democrat for California\u2019s 30th District seat, paperwork filed with the Federal Electoral Commission (FEC) on Wednesday (18.01.23) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3115,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[479,474,484,478,476,480,475,483,481,482,485,486,477],"class_list":{"0":"post-3114","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-make-up","8":"tag-adam-schiff","9":"tag-ben-savage","10":"tag-cassie-semyon","11":"tag-cory-matthews","12":"tag-danica-mckellar","13":"tag-dianne-feinstein","14":"tag-fred-savage","15":"tag-josh-bocanegra","16":"tag-laura-friedman","17":"tag-nick-melvoin","18":"tag-senator-arlen-specter","19":"tag-tessa-angermeier","20":"tag-winnie-cooper"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3114\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}