Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is not the Capitol's only motion-picture actor.
Assemblyman Tom Ammiano, D-San Francisco, filed financial disclosure documents this week showing income of between $10,000 and $100,000 last year from Focus Features of New York.
Ammiano played a cameo role in "Milk," the story of Harvey Milk, a gay activist and San Francisco supervisor who was slain along with then-S.F. Mayor George Moscone by a former supervisorial colleague, Dan White.
In the film, Ammiano, who is openly gay, re-enacted a scene in which he was protesting the Briggs Initiative, an unsuccessful 1978 ballot measure to ban gays and lesbians from working in California schools.
Ammiano, a former school teacher, is depicted shouting down an actor playing the role of state Sen. John Briggs, a conservative Orange County lawmaker who sponsored the controversial ballot measure.
Ammiano was required only to disclose a range of extra income, not a dollar amount. His film earnings supplemented a legislative salary that dropped in December from $116,208 to $95,291 per year.
PHOTO CREDIT: Assemblyman Tom Ammiano, D-San Francisco, speaks at a Sacramento rally in June 2009. Hector Amezcua/Sacramento Bee
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