Sonny Landham career, Landham was an actor in pornographic films. He then became a mainstream movie actor and appeared in a number of Hollywood films, including "The Warriors" (as a subway policeman whose leg gets broken by a baseball bat-wielding Michael Beck), "Predator", "48 Hrs.", "Lock Up" and "Action Jackson". In 2003, Landham ran in the Republican Party primary election for the post of Governor of Kentucky, hoping to repeat the success of his "Predator" castmates Minnesota Governor Jesse Ventura and California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. He based his candidacy on opposition to an amendment which endorsed the Kentucky Family Court, saying his
Lieutenant Governor of California and stimulating industries statewide. Many California projects created through gubernatorial executive orders, or through the initiative process, include a role for the Lieutenant Governor. For example, the Lieutenant Governor serves on the Agriculture-Water Transition Task Force (created by Governor Gray Davis), and five of the twenty-nine members of the oversight committee of the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine are appointed by the Lieutenant Governor. Some academics and scholars such as Roger E. Noll and Bruce Cain in "Constitutional Reform in California" have criticized constitutional offices like the Lieutenant Governor because of their low visibility among the electorate that can make