According to SFGate.com, METALLICA drummer Lars Ulrich has donated $15,000 to
San Francisco mayor Gavin Newsom's gubernatorial campaign.

Previously best known around the California state for legalizing gay marriage
early in his first term at City Hall, Newsom later became notorious for an
affair with his best friend's wife, which ended barely a year before he married
a movie starlet, according to SGVTribune.com.

Fundrace 2008, The Huffington Post's Google Maps mashup of 2008 presidential
campaign donations, previously reported that Ulrich donated $2,300 to John
Edwards' 2008 presidential campaign.

Johnny Reid "John" Edwards is an American politician who served one term as U.S.
Senator from North Carolina. He was the Democratic nominee for Vice President in
2004, and was a candidate for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination
through the January primaries, until he dropped out and later endorsed Senator
Barack Obama.

In 2007, Why Democracy?, a documentary project using film to start a global
conversation about democracy, posted a nine-minute video interview with Lars
Ulrich in which he answered ten questions on his views about God, democracy, and
systems of government. Watch the clip below.

The ten questions asked were:

01. Who would you vote as President of the World?
02. Can terrorism destroy democracy?
03. Who rules the world?
04. Why bother to vote?
05. Are women more democratic than men?
06. Is God democratic?
07. What would make you start a revolution?
08. Can democracy solve climate change?
09. Is democracy good for everyone?
10. Are dictators ever good?

When asked whom he would want to be the "President of the World," Ulrich
replied, "I want the smartest guy, and the smartest guy is Bill Clinton, so Bill
Clinton should be the president of the world, absolutely."