Several protests have been filed challenging the validity of SAG-AFTRA’s recent presidential election, in which incumbent Gabrielle Carteris handily defeated opponents including runners-up Matthew …
was “a not-so-subtle national commercial” for Carteris’ re-election campaign. The series, which premiered August 7 – nine days after election ballots were mailed to union members – is a reboot of the originalfeaturing cast members, now all grown up, playing fictionalized versions of their real-life selves struggling to get the reboot produced.
Election challenges are not common, but in 2002, the U.S. Department of Labor forced SAG to rerun its presidential election after it was discovered the union had sent out incorrect ballots to members in New York. Melissa Gilbert, who defeated Valerie Harper in the first race, defeated her again in the rerun.
Hamilton’s protest, filed with the SAG-AFTRA Elections Committee, claims Carteris “was given what amounts to a nationwide, prime time, broadcast TV ad by her employer. These episodes aired during our union’s election period while thousands of members had voting ballots in their possession. This is about Gabriel Carteris receiving something of extraordinary value directly from an employer which clearly gave her candidacy an unfair advantage in the election.
The director she is talking about is Jason – played by cast member Jason Priestley – who had punched an actor on the set of another TV show.
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