Matthew McConaughey explains why he decided not to run for Texas governor
foxnews.comMatthew McConaughey said this week that although he had "considered getting in that run" for governor of Texas last year, he decided not to partially because he wanted to focus on being a father. "I don’t think that’s where I can be the most useful right now," the "Greenlights" author told Chelsea Handler on her iHeartMedia "Dear Chelsea" podcast Thursday.
He continued, "I’m having too good of a time. I’ve got three kids — 14, 13, 10 — and the adventures we’re going on, I’m not going to get them again; and right now, I’m enjoying being a dad, a family man.
Everyone says it, but it’s true. I got seven more years, and then they’re out on their own, hopefully; and then everyone says, 'Get what you can while they’re in the house because it doesn’t come back.'" The "Dallas Buyers Club" actor, who calls himself "aggressively centrist," publicly toyed with the idea of running to lead his native state for a while before the election last year, and polls showed he could go toe-to-toe with Gov.
Greg Abbott. In November 2021, two weeks after the filing deadline, the 53-year-old posted a video in which he said he would sit out the election. "Over the past two years, I've been working on the answer to the question of how I can be most useful in this life going forward," McConaughey said at the time. "Useful to myself, useful to my family and to the most amount of people." He added, "As a simple kid born in the little town of Uvalde, Texas, it never occurred to me that I would one day be considered for political leadership.
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